Anyone need 486 motherboards?

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Mon Oct 28 21:44:52 2002

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, chris wrote:

> Does anyone want some 486 motherboards? I'm not sure who makes them (made
> in Tiawan, SiS chipset).
>
> They have the CPU (486 DX/2 50Mhz); 6 ISA slots, 2- 72pin SIMM slots and
> 8- 30 pin slots, AMI bios, AT keyboard, SiS chipset. And I'll throw in
> the VGA card and I/O cards that are currently installed with them (I/O
> card has FDD, IDE, LPT, 2- Com). Both are ISA cards, but have a 2nd
> connector that looks a bit like AGP and hangs off the back end of the ISA
> slots (3 of the 6 slots have this addition connector, so these two cards
> fit into 2 of those).

These sound a bit like common generic 486 boards. The 'extra' part on
some slots is a VL: 'VESA local bus', a 32bit extension for video (and
some other) cards.

Pat

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