Mobo Question

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Apr 1 01:33:47 2001

These slots for expansion were EISA in many cases, e.g. HP, Packard Bell, etc.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Strickland" <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Mobo Question


> Sounds like it wants a riser with the isa slots on it. Those tended to be
> proprietary, you may be out of luck. I know Digital Equipment, Packard Bell,
> Radio Shack, and myriad others produced boards like this.
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a long time lurker, first time poster. I recently obtained a mobo that
> > was sitting around a local computer store, and am having a little trouble
> > with it. It's a 386SX motherboard, with onboard parallel, serial, and PS/2
> > connectors. I was planning on building a little box based on this, but the
> > problem is the lack of ISA or PCI (obviously) slots. Instead, what i have is
> > a bigass connector. It's about 2 1/2 times bigger than a PCI slot. I'm
> > thinking this may be an extension to plug in another card with slots, but I
> > have no idea. Can anyone help me? If you need more info let me know, i can
> > supply it. The brands Faraday and WDC are displayed prominently on a lot of
> > the ICs.
> >
> > -Lanny
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Jim Strickland
> jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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Received on Sun Apr 01 2001 - 01:33:47 BST