The first two cards have arrived in the post.

These two were had for $35 US apiece. One of them will be installed into my personal Linux rig, Henen-nesw, and the other will be kept in reserve for personal use by Charles Rosenbauer.

Here they are frontal:

Let’s take a closer look at these absolutely gorgeous backplates. This is machined aluminium!

I plan on hammering out a lot of the more grievous dents in these cards’ cover plates, and repainting them matte black with a screen-printed vintage Intel logo. Here is my mockup of what they will look like:

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