DIY Luggable Pentium
Ages ago, I bought a Socket 5 Pentium via Ebay. I had mounted it in a DIY wooden case just so I could use it, but it was always a bit of a pain to fish out a 4:3 monitor, PS/2 keyboard and mouse and connect it all up. So for a long, long while I have had the idea of making it into a 'luggable' machine. Finally today, I have made it a reality. I had an ancient monitor kicking around that ran off a 12V input and I had tested powering it from an ATX PSU. I dismantled it with the idea of using it for video and audio. Unfortunately while removing it from its case, I managed to damage the cable connection for the speakers, so then I had to dig out an old speaker from a box of scrap. Annoyingly, this motherboard did not have an amplified output - only a line out. So I bought a cheap amplifier module that works off 5V so I could power it off the PSU's 5V line. This has led to an annoying amount of noise in the output - I suspect from the PSU. The keyboard is new off Amazon