FS: Compaq 486 DX2-50

[Osgeld]

Ok first and foremost if you want a 486 to set in your living room, hook it up like a console and get some retro goodness this is not the machine for you. If you want a fairly inexpensive 486 with a beat to hell case to tinker with please read on.

 

For Sale

 

Compaq Deskpro XE 450,

• 486 DX2 50Mhz
• 16Mb ram
• 170Meg hard drive
• 52x cd rom
• floppy disk
• 10 base T networking
• windows sound system
• MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows (wfw) 3.11

When I got this machine the front bezel was smashed into a million parts, the cd rom was completely missing, the floppy disk was smashed, the bios battery had leaked as well as 2 output caps on the audio output, and it was a spider nest

 

• Removed what was left of the bezel
• Added Generic CD rom and Floppy disk drive
• Removed battery, and repaired trace that was damaged (that was part of the IDE controller), replaced with a pair of AA batteries since it had the pins to do so
• Replaced the two audio output caps, sound is still kind of quiet but its clear
• tore apart everything including power supply (which its caps look good) and removed spiders and wiped everything out
• formatted hard drive reinstalled dos and windows
• fought with compaq's screwball drivers

Network is only setup for windows, but its handy cause I shared the C drive and now one can pull up that share on a modern machine and drag n drop files direct on the HDD

 

Sound card is a "windows sound system" compatible card, and it works fine but in order to gain "sound blaster compatibility" in dos you have to run a TSR in config.sys (all it really does is forward the address so why put it on a screwball address in the first place ... ugh compaq)

 

This TSR is kind of hit and miss, for instance in second reality demo, where timing is mission critical it crashes, Jazz Jackrabbit won't even see it, and epic pinball runs perfectly fine. Also it does not have a joystick port (and yes you can turn it off in bios and add your own)

 

so if I have not scared you off yet I am asking 60$ shipped USA and PAYPAL only please

 

Thanks for looking

 

 

 

 

[Mitkraft]

Oh man that brings back some memories. I worked QA for Compaq for a couple of years and spent the last year or so in the Deskpro division although it was during the PIII years and not when this baby was made. I imagine a good chunk of that cost is going to be shipping so this doesn’t sound like a bad deal. I have a slightly later deskpro sitting in my closet waiting for me to rebuild one day. GLWTS!

[Osgeld]

yea I sent out a pentium III last week in about the same size and weight and it was over 30 bucks to ship cross country

 

I am willing to negotiate prices based on zip code, or sell it for 50% off with local pickup (hell pick it up ill toss in a keyboard, optical mouse, and cables)

Edited June 3, 2018 by Osgeld

[Osgeld]

Bump

[Gamemoose]

If I had the space this would be fun to play with.

 

Extra bump-order an experience folks. There are folks that may complain about the DOS and Windows 3.11 days but once they are set-they run solid.

[coleco82]

Hello Gamemoose,

 

I agree with you. In 1994, my first computer was a Packard bell legend something. It came with dos 6.22 and windows 3.11.

 

I was 12 at the time. For me Windows 3.11 ran like a champ. I did not have a dos menu program like I do now.

 

Back then I didn't mind typing in the commands to run a game or whatnot because I was still leaning the ins and outs of dos 6.22.

 

Now, I have a generic tower that runs dos 6.22 with direct access 5.0 and windows 3.11. The only difference now is, I have 2 gigs for the dos partition and 2 gigs for the Windows 3.11 partition. I never had so much space back then.

 

I am cramming as many cd games onto it with minimal installations, and so far so good. :-)

Edited June 11, 2018 by coleco82

[Osgeld]

sent to ebay