doublebuffer wrote on 2023-06-23, 20:54:

They were quite conservative. The boards were most probably designed by quite a small team, and those proud of their work could have left their mark there. Amiga team had their signatures on the case like artists.

And proud they are;

PD2JK wrote on 2023-06-23, 21:13:

And proud they are;

Bravo!

doublebuffer wrote on 2023-06-23, 20:54:

They were quite conservative. The boards were most probably designed by quite a small team, and those proud of their work could have left their mark there. Amiga team had their signatures on the case like artists.

And sometimes they wanted to make a point...

Respecto points to anyone who knows why these names are crossed out 😉

Since compaq has been mentioned... one of my favs...

Also the Number Nine PCB's should be mentioned... too many of them had absolutely awesome looking PCB's...

spiroyster wrote on 2023-06-23, 22:10:

And sometimes they wanted to make a point...

I hope they just did shoddy job but are still alive! 😁

doublebuffer wrote on 2023-06-23, 22:19:

spiroyster wrote on 2023-06-23, 22:10:

And sometimes they wanted to make a point...

I hope they just did shoddy job but are still alive! 😁

🤣... They didn't do a shoddy job, and afaik, they are both still alive 😀

Was going through my scrap boards and found this on a HDD board.

cyclone3d wrote on 2023-07-04, 18:38:

Was going through my scrap boards and found this on a HDD board.
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That's Miniscribe or Maxtor board. Miniscribe was first one to introduce 1" height 20 and 40MB IDE soon after, bought out by Maxtor just this to start their line off.

Just found these running horses on a mostly dead 50MB Matrox HDD.

Compaq really enjoyed PCB Art.
Here is a Map of Arizona with a flag pointing at presumingly Tucson.

Here is another Map where the Flag is somewhere below Phoenix.

Somewhere between my stuff I do have a nice Compaq board showing Wile E. Coyote. Can't take a pic now, everything is stacked tight (moving to another home)

Maybe somebody recognise it and post a pic?

AMD Solo 2 motherboard (engineering sample for Athlon 64) has two interesting prints: a hammer (codename for the architecture) and some music notes that represent the Intel-jingle.

Compaq at it again. Deskpro Evo board:

I've been reorganizing my expansion cards and found this.

Resurrection from dead..
IBM PC365 dual socket 8 board does not have graphics on it but nickname "Hey little buddy".
Would be interesting to know the story behind it.