Found this machine at a second chance shop a few years ago and haven't yet done anything with it. Thought I'd have a go at cleaning it up this weekend.

Unit works, 200mhz pentium 1 (non mmx) with 128mb do ram and a matrox graphics card. No sound hardware at all, but I've got a few pci cards that might work (no isa cards yet 😞). That said, SBEMU has been an awesome fix gor sound blaster support on pci cards, so i should get some reasonably decent souns. Coast module included is cool too.

It's been 20+ years since I've worked on gear that's pre pentium 2 - can anyone identify the module pictured next to the cmos battery and what its for?

My guess from the ram/matrox gfx card is that the machine was used as a workstation for something, maybe graphics work, not sure. I cant think of too many reasons youd need 128mb memory around the time this machine was current. Plus, there's no onboard gfx chip which it looks like these machines would normally come with, leading me to think it was originally ordered from the vendor in this config, rather than being upgraded.

Plan would be to throw a disk on module or sata/ide converter in it and run dos/win 3.1 or 95