Look closely at those pins next to the keyboard port and see whether they are for a PS/2 keyboard or mouse.
You also need two serial ports on ribbon cables and a parallel port on a ribbon cable. The headers for those are right below the power connector.
You can always use a serial mouse. Whether you can use a PS/2 mouse or not depends on whether you have the connector for a port on this board.

Where's the battery on this motherboard? Is that Huston Tech chip some non-standard curse like the DALLAS chip on many boards?
I would always recommend to try to find a motherboard that has a coin cell battery...

jakethompson1 wrote on 2020-06-02, 15:38:

Look closely at those pins next to the keyboard port and see whether they are for a PS/2 keyboard or mouse.
You also need two serial ports on ribbon cables and a parallel port on a ribbon cable. The headers for those are right below the power connector.
You can always use a serial mouse. Whether you can use a PS/2 mouse or not depends on whether you have the connector for a port on this board.

Are these parts easy to come by on eBay? If so what do I call these things?

GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-06-02, 15:45:

Where's the battery on this motherboard? Is that Huston Tech chip some non-standard curse like the DALLAS chip on many boards?
I would always recommend to try to find a motherboard that has a coin cell battery...

It's a standard coin cell battery, and it has a cover, I posted another picture in my initial post to show what it is.

gryffinwings wrote on 2020-06-02, 15:51:

GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-06-02, 15:45:

Where's the battery on this motherboard? Is that Huston Tech chip some non-standard curse like the DALLAS chip on many boards?
I would always recommend to try to find a motherboard that has a coin cell battery...

It's a standard coin cell battery, and it has a cover, I posted another picture in my initial post to show what it is.

Perfect! Looks good (Y)

With 8GB memory card, format it to 4x 2GB FAT16 partitions. Not all DOS software may be stable or working well with FAT32 file system. 😉
For pre-Win95, i usually go with 4GB cards, splitting them to 2 partitions, one for system and programs, other for installers and other files. This way i can always format the first partition, whenever i want.

gryffinwings wrote on 2020-06-02, 15:50:

Are these parts easy to come by on eBay? If so what do I call these things?

This is the PS/2 version, you want something similar for serial and parallel. https://www.startech.com/Cables/Serial-Parall … Bracket~PLATE6F
You might have to move the wires around in the PS/2 connector depending on the pinout of your board. I'll let others speak to that

Format a IBM floppy and copy over Microsoft “MSD” ( Microsoft system diagnostics ).
https://kb.iu.edu/d/agcs

Can help trouble shoot computer settings, conflicts, and performance.

If you rely on nice midi music during games, try to get an ESS ES1868F with wavetable pins in order to connect a wavetable daugterboard like the "Dreamblaster S2 or X2".