The 100% 386 DX40 aka The Albatross Part 4

Part IV and maybe THE END? Things have been getting done!  The case is rust free and painted.  I have a 1.44 floppy drive to add along with the 5.25 floppy drive.  I have the Conner 340 Megabyte hard drive, the Trident ISA video card, and the ASound ISA sound card AS400.  It is time […]

The 100% 386 DX40 aka The Albatross Part 3

Part III of the story of   Welcome back to the continuing story of The Albatross I refused to let die.  This is the video series, converted to a web series instead!  Yeah!  Thus far we have determined the main Super Multi IO card is dead. That effectively meant the system was not going to […]

The 100% 386 dx40 aka The Albatross

The 386DX aka “The Albatross” Going retro! Memories. Memories that inspired me to try to find something like my first PC style computer, an Albatross, a 386 ( CCCLXXXVI in Roman numerals ). I had my C64 and my C128, my Amiga 500, all before having a PC was actually personally useful or fun. I […]