AnnoyingPentium

Purely curiosity as I did with my other systems, plus it was my late father's computer.

Some photos of some perhaps relevant stuff. Turns out that's a DX, no? The motherboard is proprietary to the PC case since it's not a standard AT fitment.

Okay there's no model number anywhere that I can access and pulling it apart is going to require a bit of time and effort at the moment. It's now a matter of finding someone with a good memory (pun fully intended) and experience with ICL computers of this era.

It would be great if I had any SIMMs at all for it, I should have specified. There's none at all, just rows of unpopulated slots since those were probably taken to another computer.

That's the issue, it didn't have any. All I know is it's an early one since it's socket 1/2 (LIF type) AFAIK. It was my late father's when he was about my age, his first computer on a working wage as an apprentice for Ritchie's Printing in Kilmarnock, bought second hand around 1995/1996 we reckon. I've got almost everything there for it including the original Conner 100-and-something megabyte hard drive, a Sound Blaster 2.0, and a 256KB video card. Here's a photo of it... I have the blanking plate too for that 5 1/4" drive bay, plus a floppy drive from my Pentium II to go into it. It powers on, but doesn't get much further since there's no RAM.

Our 2010 Toyota Auris had it, orange around the barrel IIRC.

Alright, I have a 486 as seen in "Moments of Joy". However, I now need 72-PIN SIMM RAM modules for it but I'm unsure of which ones to use since I can find sweet **** all in regards to documentation and it came with no RAM modules either. All I know is that it's an ICL DRS M75, it has an Intel 486 SX-25 CPU. I'll check for a motherboard brand name and model, but I think it's some sort of proprietary lark due to the fact it actually has peripheral ports on it. Any advice and tips on what I should be buying would help as the furthest back I've worked is SDRAM on a Cyrix 6x86 CPU based system.

Hello and welcome to Briskoda, Chrc. This place is a wealth of knowledge and I hope you enjoy the site.

Awwww what a cute dog, what breed are they? Cracking pics btw.

Howdy, good evening and welcome! This is indeed the place to be for all your Skoda needs, and possibly some other thingymajigs too.

Oh how I misinterpreted that...

I had an inkling that removal of DPFs was illegal, but I just needed a source to do so. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41761864 Hope this helps.

This is like the BMW 330E I saw today, even though it is a hybrid, I wouldn't have noticed it had anything but an ICE.

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They're tough too, at least compared to a smartphone (wouldn't be hard). I can confirm as mine has suffered a few moments of idiocy in my time. Hard drive is still good too. Screen has a lot of dead pixels, but replacement screens can be had IIRC.

I... err, opted for something a bit more old-school for call blocking...

I have come to a solution using means of compression to 192KB/s until I can get one of those solid state kits that seem quite a popular upgrade over the hard drive.

4,002 songs on my iTunes now annnnnnd I'm over by 2.08GB on the iPod...

None of those, you need to go a little outside of Ayr to know where I'm referring to.

No comment on both counts.

The village "shopping area" down the road from me is getting two EV charging points fitted. Unsure of details as of yet as they've just painted over the parking spaces for now.

The steering is quite overly assisted on these, George. Our Duster feels like a small car in terms of steering feel and has quite a small turning circle too.

Let me know how you get on with it and how you do it as I will need to do the same thing. My library of cassettes and CDs is good, subjectively, but I'd like to be able to get West Sound sometimes.

Right gents, that's enough of that.

I reckon I must fall into this category as my Fabia is well past its expected lifetime, at least in the eyes of a manufacturer.