My 1995 IBM Aptiva. 486dx2 to i7 6700k. Not 56k safe.

[Schiavetto]

I wish I was as good and knowledgeable with tools as you, OP, very creative too.

 

I'm jelly.

[givingtnt]

15 hours ago, Dr.Moddnstine said:

 

did you modify the floppy drive to work with the sd card ?

[Pro_LiZzy]

Looks awesome

 

Good job mate

[Dr.Moddnstine]

7 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

did you modify the floppy drive to work with the sd card ?

Yes, Demo here:

 

[givingtnt]

Just now, Dr.Moddnstine said:

Yes, Demo here:

 

oh shit thats so cool

[Xeypax]

Linus certified 

 

[cdominic3]

Damn, OP! Back at it again with the white case!

[ApexTypeA]

The floppy disk action is premium. Great job!

[NumLock21]

Congrats!

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/702563958515892224

[Dr.Moddnstine]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Congrats!

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/702563958515892224

Whoa! Right in the feels! The man himself!

[NumLock21]

Just now, Dr.Moddnstine said:

Whoa! Right in the feels! The man himself!

Now you'll need is to mod a 4k screen to look like a CRT or is that even possible?

Don't forget the Win95 boot screen, visual style, and theme sounds especially the startup and shutdown.

[JeffreyEagan]

Absolutely incredible. There needs to be more builds like this. +10 internet cookies.

[Tobleh]

This is an absolutely gorgeous sleeper build! Awesome work dude.

[Steel_Wind]

Is that a Model "M" keyboard you rescued from the trash?

Missing Windows key aside, the Model "M" is still as sweet as it gets. Gratz on this build.

My first computer was a Commodore PET and then an Apple ][+. I had an XT, 386SX and a 486/33 before I upgraded to a DX2/66! 

 

 

[cragger89]

This is the coolest build I have seen so far in 2016.

[esphacks]

now linus should do a "pimp my pc" series where he goes to a random dude's house, robs his old pc and sends it back like this

[mark_cameron]

I had one of them IBMs with windows 95 in the early 1990s. It was my third pc after a commodore amiga and C64K.

 

This post takes me  back,

 

As I told Linus on twitter. I'd rather of been seen taking a sledgehammer to it than refurbishment of it.

 

That case is stainless steel and weighs a tonne.

 

Respect to you.

 

I'd of killed mine. Hated it.

[mark_cameron]

17 hours ago, Dr.Moddnstine said:

Hello all! Long time LTT fan, new to the forum. I wanted to share my build, as it's really been a labor of love for the past month. I trash picked it from a local computer store in December, and it's come a long way since then.

It started life in 21 years ago 1995 with a 486dx2 running at a mind blistering 66mhz, with a massive 4mb ram, and 1mb video memory. The 3.5 floppy disk could hold a maximum data capacity of 1.44MB. As of a few days ago, it now has a an Intel i7 6700k running at 4.3ghz, 16GB's of 3000mhz ddr4 ram, and 8GB's video memory. The 3.5 floppy drive can read up to 512GB of data from a single diskette. This was not a plug & play build. Massive amounts of cutting, fabrication, welding, grinding, a filing were required. It was awesome.

Here's the full build with gifs for proper demonstrations of the floppy drive in action: http://imgur.com/a/fvh1M

 

 

Questions...

 

1. Is it noiser or less noisy than it was in windows 95 edition ? As that was loud. Like a light aircraft preparing for departure.

 

2. Temperatures?

[Frollard]

16 hours ago, AlexAlcala said:

waaaaaaaaait! i have a question, i tried to do this but i ran into a problem i cant solve, the power button on the case im using have a connector that is waaaaay different for the normal pin of today, how did you solve this?.

 

Looks great! congrats!

That's an OLDER AT power supply where the line in from the wall was actually switched at the front of the case; the power button literally cuts power to the machine. They had to change to ATX and use the green wire to allow the motherboard to stay powered to enable proper sleep/hibernate states where the motherboard could boot more quickly by keeping ram active-- and that only works if it's still powered on.  see old: 

You need to ditch that entire old click-on-click-off latching switch with a more modern momentary contact switch and find a way to jam that behind the original button -- then wire that to the motherboard header for 'power' 

see new: 

 

[Coaxialgamer]

Noice !

[EquinzE]

This is just amazing. Superb job man. Especially the floppy SD reader, that was clever.

[MacBerg36]

Very cool I have old pc that I originally bought back in 98 cratered on me finally looking to rebuild it with modern parts this gives me many ideas. Thanks 

[rakeshdas]

There are average builds. then there are rediculously expensive over the top builds, then there is this. You my friend have created a new category of old look but kickass builds - congrats, this looks AMAZING! The time and dedication you put into the build is definitely visible from the looks of the build.

[DJ46]

This is a ridiculously cool build. I thought about doing something similar but I lack the skills and creativity.

 

Also, we seem to have the same mouse, mousepad and keyboard (although I don't use my Model M, my hands hurt after gaming on it).

[Fimb]

That's truly a neat rig!