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386 Motherboard showing maths co-processor
A look inside a now very old Intel 386 microprocessor computer.
The actual processor is not in this photo (see another photo I uploaded), but you can see in the middle right side of the picture in the brown chip holder the maths co-processor, which was used for packages such as Matlab. The bottom middle sees a chip with a sticker on it, that is the BIOS, and to the right is the memory bank. The observant can see there are different amounts of chips on the DIMM memory, this is because as the RAM price fell, the computer was upgraded bit by bit to a dazzling 8MB.... and I DID run Win95 on it.
The very observant can also see the black bits which hold the expansion cards, which back then was the humble ISA bus. Over the years of use, were added a second Serial / Parallel card, a then high end Soundblaster sound card (longest card in the picture), and a card to run the CD-ROM - because it would not work off the IDE bus, or the Soundblaster's IDE bus interface.
This was my first proper computer, no longer used but kept as my sentimental first proper computer.
The image is resized from the original 14 bit RAW image, so unaffected by JPEG conversion in editing.
Nikon D700, 50mm prime lens set at F6.3 and ISO 1000, 1/20s.
386 Motherboard showing maths co-processor
A look inside a now very old Intel 386 microprocessor computer.
The actual processor is not in this photo (see another photo I uploaded), but you can see in the middle right side of the picture in the brown chip holder the maths co-processor, which was used for packages such as Matlab. The bottom middle sees a chip with a sticker on it, that is the BIOS, and to the right is the memory bank. The observant can see there are different amounts of chips on the DIMM memory, this is because as the RAM price fell, the computer was upgraded bit by bit to a dazzling 8MB.... and I DID run Win95 on it.
The very observant can also see the black bits which hold the expansion cards, which back then was the humble ISA bus. Over the years of use, were added a second Serial / Parallel card, a then high end Soundblaster sound card (longest card in the picture), and a card to run the CD-ROM - because it would not work off the IDE bus, or the Soundblaster's IDE bus interface.
This was my first proper computer, no longer used but kept as my sentimental first proper computer.
The image is resized from the original 14 bit RAW image, so unaffected by JPEG conversion in editing.
Nikon D700, 50mm prime lens set at F6.3 and ISO 1000, 1/20s.