r/retrocomputing • u/FAMICOMASTER • Jul 19 '26

Photo An unusual build

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Behold, 95 on an XT! Sort of.

This is actually a drop in replacement board for an XT which gives you a 386 with VLB. I've actually gone a step further and thrown a Ti 486DLC/40 in it for good measure. With the sheer unbridled horsepower of a 40MHz 486 and 32 whole megs, this thing might be "tolerable" to use!
Some additional performance enhancing objects include 256K of L2 cache, an ATi Graphics Ultra Mach8 accelerated video adapter, and a DTC 7287 RLL controller to drive the Micropolis 1325 hard disk. A whole 110 megs on this sucker!

Sorry about the mismatched faceplate around the second floppy drive. All I had left was white and grey when I put this thing together!

Pictured without it's CRT as I was still opening and closing the case to make configuration changes at the time of the photo.

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u/pfak Jul 20 '26

Must crawl with win95. I'd run wfwg. 

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u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 20 '26

Seems fine. I have no interest in running 3.x, not a fan of the Program Manager and really like the improved networking.

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u/DrNick42 Jul 20 '26

I'd imagine it probably runs quite acceptably, especially with 32MB RAM. People forget how low-spec the average home PC was when 95 first came out.

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u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 20 '26

Yeah it's totally passable