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The ultimate beauty: a mobo with EISA-VLB slots!

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First post, by aries-mu

Posted on 2019-02-18, 16:29

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Hey guys, I saw something mythological on Instagram: the photo of an EISA motherboard with 8 EISA slots (no ISA slots), one of which is also a VLB slot!!!! (it has the extra VLB extension connector).

I never even imagined that an EISA+VLB slot existed or even could!

It's a SIS motherboard with 16 SIMM slots (30 pin SIMMs). Socket 3.

Can you believe that?

Any thoughts?

*UPDATES:

The exact motherboard (top-left corner of the page):
https://books.google.ca/books?id=AzsEAAAAMBAJ … perEISA&f=false

Review of 486 computer with that motherboard:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C … berdeen&f=false

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Reply 1 of 3, by dionb

Posted on 2019-02-18, 16:43

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Something like this you mean?

Yep. Have one. Have even been operating on it over the last few weeks due to a soldered RTC RAMIFIED, desoldering the original RTC, soldering in a socket, then finding out replacement DS1387 units are not being made, so butchering the existing one and attaching an external battery:

Just one slight problem: there is something very, VERY wrong with the VLB slot. Best-case as soon as you put something in there it shorts the whole system out, worst-case smoke starts coming out of the card 😦

Because of that I'm treating this board as EISA only for all practical purposes 😮

Reply 2 of 3, by aries-mu

Posted on 2019-02-18, 16:51

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dionb wrote:
Something like this you mean?...

Oh wow another EISA/VLB board!
It looked somewhat different, but yours is very interesting too! And yours has two sockets, while the one I saw had only one blue socket, with the extra holes for I guess a Pentium overdrive!! (Yes, a pentium overdrive ready board still using 30 pin SIMMs), 9 sockets for L2 cache. 16 SIMM slots.

Sorry to hear about your problem with using the VLB slot!

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Reply 3 of 3, by aries-mu

Posted on 2019-02-18, 16:52

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*UPDATES:

The exact motherboard (top-left corner of the page):
https://books.google.ca/books?id=AzsEAAAAMBAJ … perEISA&f=false

Review of 486 computer with that motherboard:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C … berdeen&f=false

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Jesus said to them: The beginning, who also speak unto you

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