okay I dumped the hard drive
it's DOS 6.22
was not expecting that.
okay I dumped the hard drive
it's DOS 6.22
was not expecting that.
also I think I was wrong about these memory sticks: they're 16mb each, not 32mb.
So it it's 48mb fully loaded, not 96mb.
I got bored and decided to yoink the BIOS EPROM.
It's an Award PCI/PNP 586 bios, ©1997, S/N 108740192.
oh wow, the Award BIOS Logo format is WEIRD. it has a size defined in "characters". So, like, this image is 136x84, but is stored as 17x6, because it's 17 characters wide by 6 tall.
And it's got COLOR ATTRIBUTES! You can only use one color per cell, because this is technically a TEXT MODE!
interestingly it has a 32kb rom embedded in it, for the SCSI controller, which isn't on-board. It's for the PCI SCSI adapter
I lit up some of the buttons using a bench power supply. Nice glow! I wonder if they're incandescent?
it also includes a shareware copy of PKZip 2.04g
come on TASCAM, pay for your shareware!
I put the motherboard together and stuck in a VGA card.
unfortunately I grabbed the Piss-VGA cable but hey, it POSTs!
No, BIOS, it is not 1997.
sadly.
And it's a Winbond W29EE011-15, 128 kilobyte flash chip.
Dumped fine. And it just so happens I was installing the Award BIOS Editor the other day. It loads it up just fine!
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