286

[xmastree]

Many moons ago, I picked up this epson 286 with a view to modding it. I haven't actually done anything with it yet, but I thought I'd share the photos I took when I took it apart today.

Firstly, the front view:

Behind those front panel covers:

That switch slows it down from 12 MHz to 8 or 6, just in case some applications run too fast...


First look inside, at all the expansion cards:

The cards, one by one (from top/left to bottom right in the above photo):

Modem:

Yes, it is bent...


Memory expansion:

Video:

FDD/IO controller:

HDD Controller:

RAM:

Motherboard:

CPU:

The mobo slides in through a slot in the front,

and connects to the expansion slots via that grey connector:

One of the disks (20MB I believe):

(not as big as I had imagined)


The case almost empty. The drive cage is welded in place.

[xmastree]

I've added this post to the original thread about this case, so I'll close this one.

If a mod would like to remove it, that would be fine. No need for duplicates.