12 Oct
2005
12 Oct
'05
1:59 p.m.
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:06:10 -0400
Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
I don't know that I've ever seen a 486 motherboard that didn't use a
'chipset.' The ASIC
'chipset' motherboards came in the late 286/early 386 era. The big
'Full AT footprint' '286 motherboards don't use a 'chipset' but
rather
lots and lots of TTL gates and standard Intel 8xxx LSI chips.
They exist, I have seen several TTL motherboards with TTL for 386
and 486. Some hybrid TTL and one or two chipsets as well.
Subject: Re: PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware
From: Dan Williams <williams.dan at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:17:32 +0100
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
On the whole I prefer my solution. A simple 486/66 on a board that Dan, I don't think I've ever seen a
5.25" PCMCIA drive. Do they
exist? There's actually not a huge amount of
difference between the
PCMCIA bus and ISA. IIRC, you can get PCMCIA-PC104 adapters and
PC104 is very close to ISA.>
Cheers,
Chuck
These guys made one ten years ago, there might be some around.
http://www.accurite.com/PR-PC.html
Dan Tony can probably add a few comments about the switch
from 'regular
Another good
choice is the 4" tall Dell Pizza boxes such as the 425/np
wailing about not
being able to use. My Dell systems are
first-generation 100MHz bus Pentium III systems, which makes them
that it probably has an 800 MHz process. Uh... The fastest machines that I have here at home at
present run _550 MHz_
I agree about the usefulness of keeping around some 'plain old' legacy
systems from the '486 or early Pentium era. I've always kept boxes like
Agreed. I keep some old 386/486/pentium boards around. In fact, I
have small collection of PS/2 machines. Not the playstations! :)
Cheers, Wizard