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GoYouSalukis:

Hey Guys,

I picked up this beauty for $5 at a yard sale. At first, I thought it was just a display, and maybe I could hack it, but once I turned it on, it turned out to be a working 586 with windows 95 loaded. It boots up quick, and seems to work fine. Here are the specs:
Processor: Am5x86(X5)
Base Mem: 640K
Ext. Mem: 31744K (32M total)
One VGA port, two serial ports, one parallel port, one funky looking floppy port, one PS2 port.

It has a touchscreen interface that works fine.
I'm trying to come up with some ideas to use it for. The biggest drawback is that it has no sound, just beeps from the onboard speaker.

The only idea I have so far is to find an old version of MS Access and write a quiz program for the kids with big buttons for them to press.

Anyone have any ideas?


404:

I'm working on a similar project using a point of sales unit. Mine however runs on socket 370 architecture. Someone gave it to me. Was going to use it as a jukebox but unfortunately the screen membrane was shot.

Easiest thing you can do at this point is use it as a dedicated mame machine running a severely limited romset, ie: .036 Donkey kong style era games, tops.

GoYouSalukis:

Originally, I was thinking along those lines, but with no sound, I'm not sure the experience would be that great.

404:

ah yeah, reading derp. Missed that part.

Not sure, i guess your idea of a quiz game is better than any at this point. :)

Skivt68:

Maybe you could see if hooking up a cheap set of pc speakers would work.  If there's no 3.5mm/rca jack, you could always gut the speakers and hook them up directly (obviously taking proper precautions/using speakers you don't care about to test it).

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