Reply 20 of 24, by xjas
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wrote:canthearu, yes, of course! It's because they are rare and on huckster's hands. They know that these boards are best solutions for retro gaming in case if you want sublimate max eras in one machine. If you don't want it you must be mad to buy such board for such price. I understand that those boards should be more expensive than "usual" "regular" boards but nowadays prices I don't understand too - $200+ and some of them even $1000+ 😳
A few years ago I was lucky and got two DFI G7S620-N boards about $180 for each. And now I have i865+C2D+AGP+PCI+ISA system. It's covers for me 1983-2006 close to 100%, and ~2006~2010 more or less.
Those boards have nothing to do with "retro gaming", they were a niche product for industrial use. They're rare because ISA was a non-thing for consumers in the P4 era, and the sellers are understandably marketing them as spare parts to industrial customers who have no problem plonking down $300 to fix a $10 000+ piece of lab gear. Nobody's targeting "us" specifically, or seeing a few old nerds building Win98 machines as a gold mine.
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