28 Dec
2003
28 Dec
'03
8:53 a.m.
If your in the USA this sounds like a deal. BTW is there cache on this
board? I assume its a standard AT motherboard and not some hybrid?
My zip is 44509 if you want to calculate the postage
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin Johnston" <marvin(a)rain.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: OLD VESA MB for my collection
Nice timing! I am digging throught the piles of s ... tuff, and ran
across a 486 motherboard with one 8 bit slot and six 16 bit slots. Three
of the 16 bit slots also have the additional local bus slots. this has a
socket 3 with an IBM 486 DX4 processor installed. It has slots for four
72 pin Simms with no memory installed although I have a bag of 4 MB
Simms to populate it if you need the memory. Cover postage, and it's
yours.
Teo Zenios wrote:
>
> I recently got a few parts together to build a 486 computer to mess
around
with OS/2 warp 3 and a few other old OS's.
> Now that I got the system together I find the
motherboard is dead, my
other boards are PCI so I cant use them.
> Anybody have an old 486 socket 3 motherboard they
dont need? Has to have
at least 2 VLB slots and no pci slots. Boards with 72 pin
memory slots would
be nice but not necessary since I have 30 pin simms around here. I will need
a processor also if I cant use my AMD 486/120 or 486/133 on it. The board I
have has a 486/66 but I am not sure if its dead or not.
>
> The reason I want VLB is to use my promise IDE caching controller and
the
Diamond stealth 64 VRAM (with expansion memory board) VLB cards which
were pretty fast in their day, that and I dont have an old world VESA
machine to mess with.
If you have a board let me know and we can work something out.