First post, by MSxyz
I've got a nice FX3000 motherboard with a 50Mhz 486 up and running nicely. Unlike many other motherboards of its kind encountered on eBay, this one has the local bus connector soldered. Motherboard is in pristine condition, fit for a collector (and it will end up in a display case someday).
Performance with a good ISA graphic card is excellent (20 fps on doom benchmark) but I'd like to pair this motherboard with a proper local bus card.
I saw recently another ECS motherboard with this bus on sale on eBay (the seller correctly pointed out that it wasn't a VLB slot) and it got me thinking that there must be also a niche market for video cards equipped with this proprietary bus.
My fear, however, is that people simply discard them once they try them into a standard VLB slot and they realize they don't work. If I'm not mistaken, there were three models in total, two with Tseng Labs chips and one with a S3 chip. I'm regularly scouting eBay for such a card but it seems I'm out of luck.