AST Bravo MS-5100 Desktop

AST Bravo MS-5100 Desktop

This one was a recent roadside pickup, an AST Bravo MS5100 from the mid- late 90s, a Pentium 1 @100 MHz with 24 MegaBytes of RAM and a COAST module on board ( L2 cache was a separate optional module in those days hence Cache On A STick).

The original IDE hard drive was failing but appeared to have been running Windows 95. My Original Win95 is on CD but this PC never had that luxury item fitted as you can see the original covers which match the detail on the front panel are still present.

So I decided to go the full retro and install MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 as I still have a set of original AST branded floppy disk installers from back in the day.

The smallest working hard drive I had spare was 80 GigaByte so I created a full sized 2GB system partition leaving the remaining 97.5% of drive space unallocated.

I could always add some more partitions for data but 2GB was a lot of space at the time. It has PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports and SB compatible sound on board but no game port. The network port is 10Mbit/second.

AST Bravo MS-5100 Desktop

Here it is running some quality examples of Windows and DOS programs from the era. I had to copy the Activision CD to a floppy to install it.

AST Bravo MS-5100 Desktop

Made 1996 approx.
CPU Intel Pentium @100 MHz
RAM 24 MByte
HDD 2GByte (partition of 80 GB IDE drive)*
CD/DVD None (original covers still fitted)
FDD 1.44 Mbyte 3.5inch
USB None
Ports 1x Parallel, 2x Serial
Network 10Mbps PCI Ethernet
Modem None
O/S MS Dos 6.22
  +MS Windows 3.11
Display SVGA, ATI, 1 MByte
Sound Sound Blaster compatible
Monitor Diamond View LCD*
Keyboard PS/2
Mouse Microsoft PS2 Optical mouse*
Speakers internal monitor speakers or powered external speakers*

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