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    EV> I will be getting it later this week and putting it on my XP   
    EV> box because my VESA VL-BUS 486DX2-66 doesn't have any PCI   
    EV> Slots on the motherboard.   
      
    Damn! A VLB 486DX2-66. Oh how I remember.   
      
    My original desktop was a 486sx25 with 4mb ram and a 165mb hard   
    drive, IIRC. Over the years I had that I slowly upgraded it to a   
    486DX4-100 and maybe 2Gig HD. The ultimate upgrade was the Vesa   
    Local Bus motherboard. After that I replaced the individual   
    cards as I found them at a price I could afford. Eventually I   
    had something lik 32MB ram and all my cards VLB.   
      
    The way I tested for the speed of the system was to find some   
    streamed video, and see how large I could get it. Live streamed   
    video from Europe, the size of a postage stamp, was   
    exhilarating.   
      
    Then Intel came out with upgrades for the CPU. I finally got a   
    pentium overdrive chip, which ran at 83MHZ, but was 32 bit and   
    beat the heck out of the 486DX100. Then I could watch live   
    streaming video the size of a large postage stamp. Wow!   
      
    I really hated to give that away, but it really couldn't compete   
    with my first pentium, a Celeron 500mhz.   
      
    While looking for something else I found I had an old Intel   
    Overdrive DX20DP50 cpu in my stash. Don't even recall where I   
    got it, or know if it's any good. If you are interested you can   
    have it.   
      
    I also found a reference work online that dates back to that   
    time,   
      
    www.philipstorr.id.au/pcbook/book5/486.htm   
      
    There were a series of those upgrade chips, and this may be one   
    of the early ones. If it's any good it should work with a VLB   
    board.   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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