This keyboard featured extra function keys on the far left as well as 8 directional keys and has macro keys for programming your own macro commands. This PC came with a massive 124 key Gateway 2000 “Anykey” keyboard. There is nothing too special about the rear of this PC and we have a pretty standard layout with parallel and serial connectors as well as an AT keyboard port and eight expansion slots.īefore we open the case I wanted to take a look at the keyboard Gateway sold with this machine. This design also makes it difficult to find and fit a replacement PSU should yours die since standard AT or ATX power supplies with AT adaptors lack this side switch and are of a smaller size. This is a design more in common with earlier 80’s machines like the 5150. There is a power switch located on the right back side. The front of the case also lacks any power button. In the end I did opt to install an SCSI CD drive though the drive itself is a newer and faster Sony drive. The machine in question here did, in fact, come to me with an SCSI card installed and no CD drive and I had a very hard time getting an IDE CD drive to install and work correctly. Although IDE would be the standard for an OEM PC like this I’ve read some sources claiming the original CD drive was actually a SCSI x1 or x2 drive. I want to note here that there seems to be some difficulty in determining the stock CD-ROM drive type. On the top is a 1.2MB 5 1/4 drive with a 1.44MB 3 1/2 floppy drive taking up the middle bay and finally a CD-ROM drive at the bottom. I attempted to replicate the look as closely as possible to a stock 4DX-66V and placed my drives according to some older advertisement photos I found. One thing I do dislike about this case is the complete lack of any external 3 1/2 bays forcing you to use a 5 1/4 bay adaptor for the obligatory 1.44MB floppy drive. On the far right side of the case, we have three 5 1/4 external bays. To the left, we have a key lock with a green power LED located underneath followed by a reset button an HDD activity light and finally a turbo button. The 4DX-66V (4DX standing for 486DX CPU and 66V standing for 66MHz with Vesa Local Bus slots) is a rather large desktop case and is fairly heavy with a mostly all metal case. ![]() The model we’re looking at in this article is the desktop version although an even more impressive to look at tower version was also available for purchase. This thing meant serious business and if the specs didn’t impress you the large case and relatively high build quality should have. Not to say the other OEM companies didn’t make some impressive PC’s back in the day but the 4DX2-66V from Gateway 2000 really stood out as a massive and powerful PC of the time. Enter the iconic 486 based Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V (Desktop) released around 1993 and retailing for a whopping $2995. Of all these OEMs Gateway 2000 perhaps made one of the greatest of all these IBM compatibles. In the 1980’s and 90’s it seemed like everyone was making IBM PC compatible computers from Canon and AT&T to bigger names like HP and Dell.
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