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First off, I would like to say that machines like this are becomming relics so it's really been a good experence playing around with this server. It has duel 486 dx2 processors, about 8mb of SIMM ram, and acually one of the first ATI video cards. The expansion cards consisted of; a parrallel/seriel card, a sound card, modem, and video card. There was also a quad speed cd-rom drive, floppy "diskette" drive, 5.24 inch floppy disk drive, and two hard drives. The hard drives were both Western Digital drives but, one was 256mb and the other was 512mb.
By the time I learned all this I was thinking to myself, atleast the case is still a good one. I wish I was right about that one. The wiring was different in this case due to the power source used was different then of newer model computers. This computer had a large 4 prong wire connection to the power button. I'm guessing because it had a backup and clock battery connecting to it. Eitherway, the power button didn't have useable wires and the entire button assembly had to be replaced. I replaced the button with the IBM case button. I just pulled that and the wiring all out of there and intergrated it all in with the Gateways wires. With that IBM stripped of every thing other then the motherboard, processor, and heatsink I'll pitch the case in the trash and document the parts. The enlarged pictures on the left high light the power button replacement.
It had a 300 watt power supply which kind of suprised me. Most Gateway servers had two 200 watt power supplys back then roughly around that power rating. Whens the last time you saw one of those 5.25 inch floppy disk drives? This computer was just full of little presants. To the bottem, a duel 486 dx2 mother board, what a treat. There is also a picture of all the ISA components I pulled out of the Gateway too.
These are some of the pictures I took during work on this computer. On the top left its the IBMs motherboard, top middle Gateway power source, top right Gateway motherboard, bottem left Gateway components, botem middle 5.25 inch floppy drive, bottem left scrapped IBM case.
