[Milsurplus] Re: SAIC V2 LC

[Ray Fantini]

The power supply is just a regular 24 volt DC power supply, although the
plug has about twenty wires most are for charging the internal battery.
the box works just fine from standard 24 volt source. the internal
drives are just regular run of the mill IDE hard drives, the carrier had
a additional circuit for a heater elements but unless you are going to
use it in sub zero temp dont worry about it. I have installed win 95 on
several and had no problems running it, dont think 98 would work. all of
them that I have seen come with 32 megs, four 8 meg 30 pin simms so they
have the memory for 95. I thought that I would pop out the basic 486 CPU
and install some 486 DX 4 overdrive I have but never got around to it.
theirs a big heat sink on the CPU attached to the case that would
require some work. they usually have thicknet network boards  you can
throw them out and install regular ISA network boards and use the old
phone connecters ( after changing them) to bring it to the outside
world. I also install newer IDE boards so you can use two ports so it
will connect to a CD drive, or if you have a SCSI CD drive you can use
the internal SCSI board although the win 98 boot disk wont work with
SCSI. the 98 disk is great for initialing 95 too. Have fun with it.
Ray Fantini KA3EKH