retired computers/Lita I

Lita I was an attempt to have file server on my network.

Specs
Brand: Zeos
Model: Pantera
Case: Full Tower
LAN IP Address: None
CPU/Speed: Pentium @ 90 MHz
RAM: 16 mb DIMM
BIOS: Phoenix
Hard Drive(s): 1 gb
CD-ROM: 1x tray loading SCSI
Other Drives: Generic NEC FDD, Colorado tape backup drive.
Video Card: Diamond VGA.
Modem: None
NIC: iNTEL Token Ring Ethernet
Additional Cards: Sound Blaster compatible sound board (don't remember brand)
Monitor: None
Mouse/Keyboard: Logitech MouseMan 3-button Serial Mouse, 101+ keyboard.
Other Perephrials: None
Operating System: (was) Windows98

System History/Future
Lita I was to be a file server for my network, and she definately had a whole lot of internal space for extra hard drives. Unfortunately she was plagued with problems, and I opted to scrap her for parts instead of trying to fix what I counted to be 2 major problems and several small ones. Given the fact that this system was practically given to me, and some of the parts were salvagable, she wasn't a total loss.

One problem was that the SCSI interface on the motherboard or the SCSI CD-ROM drive seemed to be old and worn out. It would work fine for a while but then stop working alltogether. The second problem was that the power supply fan was dead, and I only noticed it after I had torn open the case and noticed there was no airflow through the power supply. When I took the power supply apart I noticed that some of the wire shielding had started to melt and the white foam like material supporting the ceramic capacitors were taking on a brown color (not good).

One interesting note is that the AT motherboard was a 486 adapted to Pentium using a socket based daughterboard.