This is what it was all about.

With the Creative CD-ROM finally working, we now have a functional 486 in the household.

The Amstrad Mega PC doesn’t count. That is more of a 386SX on steroids or, in my highly scientific terminology, a crippled 486.

Take your pick!

So very… boxy.

Now that’s how you make a logo sticker!

Made in Australia.

Those were the days.

Not that being Australian-made automatically makes something technically better. I think it is more the nostalgia of seeing a big beige PC that was assembled and sold locally.

Even with the guts out in the open, it still looks great.

The 486DX2-66 runs its processor core at 66 MHz while the external bus operates at 33 MHz. It also includes the floating-point unit and 8 KB on-chip cache expected of the DX2 family.

A proper early-‘90s 486.

Try and fill all those ports.

Onboard video and two serial ports!

Ohhh Micronics.

Now that’s a trustworthy-looking brand name.

Uh ohhh… another trip down memory lane.

Sure is crowded in here! ;)

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