Western Systems WS340

Here is a 386 PC I was donated recently, it's badged as a Western Systems WS340, but I can't find out anything about this PC or Western Systems online

It appears to have a 40MHz 386 AMD processor, with 4MB's of RAM, VGA graphics card, and a 85.3MB hard disk, the PC speaker is the only sound hardware available, and it has a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive, not much else is installed hardware wise

Keyboard and mouse



An unremarkable keyboard, it has the larger XT DIN connector



A serial mouse, it looks like the mouse from my Dell Optiplex 433sl, but with a 9 pin D Sub connector instead of PS/2


Documentation







This is all the documentation I got with the PC


PC Network adaptors



I got a network card and PCMCIA adaptor in this box



This is the card, it is branded Netgear



This is the PCMCIA network card




It has an adaptor for Ethernet and 10base2 types of network



There was a blanking panel in the box as well



Documentation, disks, and original receipt


Apple network adaptor



Now this looks like it's for an Apple Macintosh, some sort of network adaptor I believe



This is the PSU



Asanté Talk



Connectors on the box with the Apple branded splitters, the right socket on both splitters have been damaged



The Apple branded splitters



Two cables with the plug


Software



Lotus Ami Pro disks



Microsoft Works disks



Various other disks



Microsoft Windows 3.1 disks (Copies)



Some of the disks came in this little plastic box, I remember these



The rest of the disks were squeezed into this envelope, it appears to be for Microsoft software



Random 25 pin DSub Cable


Hewlett Packard Deskjet 500



Printer PSU



HP Deskjet 500, I had a similar printer to this back in the day, it was crap



Various parts of the printer



Expansion slots, used for Font cartridges etc



Printer connections underneath



A "new" printer cartridge


WS340 PC



It's quite long



Pretty unremarkable looking even if it has three 5 1/4 inch bays and eight card slots available



Quite a lot of empty space here, plenty of room for expansions, there is a parallel/serial card and a VGA card already here



The hard disk, Western Digital WDAC280, 980 Cyl, 10 heads, 17 spt, 85.3MB, it still works



PC speaker and spare PSU connectors



The AMD AM386DX-40 processor



80387 maths Co-processor socket



Crystal running at 14.31818MHz



Opti 82C495 SX chipset



Eight slots for RAM, currently has 4MB fitted



Tried to get the back of the floppy drive


Western Systems (KEC) CA14MG Monitor



Pretty standard SVGA monitor, it's a little soft meaning it's been used for a long time, it has all the normal controls you would expect



Fixed VGA cable with detachable mains lead



Everything looks in order, so smoke test time



After a fiddle with the mains lead that wasn't making a good connection, it boots



The Turbo button switches between Lo and 40, the buttons have lights above them, including the reset button which lights when you press reset




Various screen shots, the PC boots to the F1 Windows 3.1 and F2 Dos 5 menu



This is Windows 3.1, the photo isn't out of focus, this is what it looks like






More screen shots, it all works!


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