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386SX motherboard with strange slots

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First post, by Hamby

Posted on 2018-08-04, 01:55

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I inadvertently acquired this 386sx motherboard, and noticed that it has two strange slots; they're longer than 16 bit ISA; in fact they look like double 8 bit ISA slots.
I also can't see where the CMOS battery goes on this motherboard.

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Anyone have any ideas what kind of slots they might be?

Reply 1 of 1, by stamasd

Posted on 2018-08-04, 02:43

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They're usually for proprietary memory expansion boards.
Also the battery is built into the Dallas chip in the right lower corner of the board.

I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O

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