Gamecollector wrote:

Batyra wrote:

As next I got third Cyrix MII 333GP for my collection.

What means "v" in "Cyrix MIIv"?

Mobile version.

2 cool and unusual ISA-VGAs in todays lot of 10 kg which were the reason I bought it

Diamond Speedstar 64 ISA with 2 MB RAM
ATI 38800-1 mach8 (Graphics Ultra, 8514/Ultra)

Robotron 1715 with printer, manuals and 4 boxes of floppys. Sadly not working, need repairs...

vlask wrote:

Robotron 1715 with printer, manuals and 4 boxes of floppys. Sadly not working, need repairs...

Robotron. Sounds like something I would find in the middle of an abandoned shack in Fallout.

Gamecollector wrote:

Batyra wrote:

As next I got third Cyrix MII 333GP for my collection.

What means "v" in "Cyrix MIIv"?

The "v" means they were produced after Via bought them out.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

vlask wrote:

Robotron 1715 with printer, manuals and 4 boxes of floppys. Sadly not working, need repairs...

Robotron. Sounds like something I would find in the middle of an abandoned shack in Fallout.

Sounds like an 18th century version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron:_2084

Ohhhhhh I always wondered what Llamatron was a take off of.

BitWrangler wrote:

Ohhhhhh I always wondered what Llamatron was a take off of.

Jason Scott just posted something about that on his twitter a few hours ago.

Your not Jason Scott are you? Because tbh I'm surprised he has no presence here.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Your not Jason Scott are you?

Not usually, I guess from a distance you could mistake me for him, but my cat hasn't got as much white on him.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

vlask wrote:

Robotron 1715 with printer, manuals and 4 boxes of floppys. Sadly not working, need repairs...

Robotron. Sounds like something I would find in the middle of an abandoned shack in Fallout.

And it looks the part as well.

Got an extra PICMG bacplane with 14 slots to play with someday. I have a 18 slot dual segmented backplane today that is a bit to big. Old industrial gear are getting cheaper and i have seen some cool SBCs that is affordable. Waiting for a new 486 SBC i also buyed that will go in this backplane. Not sure what case all this would fit in.

Scraphoarder wrote:

Got an extra PICMG bacplane with 14 slots to play with someday. I have a 18 slot dual segmented backplane today that is a bit to big. Old industrial gear are getting cheaper and i have seen some cool SBCs that is affordable. Waiting for a new 486 SBC i also buyed that will go in this backplane. Not sure what case all this would fit in.

PICMG_14slot.jpg

I've never seen a board like that. ISA, VLB, PCI, Baby AT, and ATX? That'll be an excellent gaming rig for MS-DOS games. Maybe a Socket 370 SBC would be great as well (just my 2 cents).

bjwil1991 wrote:

ISA, VLB, PCI, Baby AT, and ATX?

I think it's not VLB, but rather some proprietary connector. Otherwise it's not clear where PCI can be attached to: there are no chips on the board.

atar wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

ISA, VLB, PCI, Baby AT, and ATX?

I think it's not VLB, but rather some proprietary connector. Otherwise it's not clear where PCI can be attached to: there are no chips on the board.

Looks like the SBCs have the chips on there for the PCI, ISA, and VLB (what it looks like) and power connectors, which is dependent on the board itself. It's cool to see 5 LEDs for the +/-5V, +/-12V, and GND for diagnostic purposes, which is nice.

Its not VLB, its the cpu board connector AKA PICMG 1.0 or maybe 1.1. Its ISA/PCI and they're meant for a rack mount cases.

The two PICMG slots (the VLB looking ones) take a cpu board.

See more here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICMG

also

Jade Falcon wrote:

Its not VLB, its the cpu board connector AKA PICMG 1.0 or maybe 1.1. Its ISA/PCI and they're meant for a rack mount cases. […]
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Its not VLB, its the cpu board connector AKA PICMG 1.0 or maybe 1.1. Its ISA/PCI and they're meant for a rack mount cases.

The two PICMG slote (the VLB looking ones) take a cpu board.

So that's what it is. The more you know. I've seen industrial SBC cards before, and that looks amazing.

The cool thing is having two or more hardware profiles for your OS or a duel boot and being able to change cpu boards. Say you could have a dual boot with dos and 7 and have a 486 and 1366 cpu board. Simply swap the board when you want to mess with dos.
But no PCIE, you need PICMG 1.3 for that then you lose isa. Some 1.3 boards have ISA via a beige chip however.

I thought about getting one with a SK8 board, but the prices are abit high and finding a SBC for SK8 is not that simple, let alone one with two or more sockets.

Jade Falcon wrote:

The cool thing is having two or more hardware profiles for your OS or a duel boot and being able to change cpu boards. Say you could have a dual boot with dos and 7 and have a 486 and 1366 cpu board. Simply swap the board when you want to mess with dos.
But no PCIE, you need PICMG 1.3 for that then you lose isa. Some 1.3 boards have ISA via a beige chip however.

I thought about getting one with a SK8 board, but the prices are abit high and finding a SBC for SK8 is not that simple, let alone one with two or more sockets.

Interesting. I thought of building a better system with that type of board (too bad the backplanes don't have AGP slots), but prices are expensive.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

The cool thing is having two or more hardware profiles for your OS or a duel boot and being able to change cpu boards. Say you could have a dual boot with dos and 7 and have a 486 and 1366 cpu board. Simply swap the board when you want to mess with dos.
But no PCIE, you need PICMG 1.3 for that then you lose isa. Some 1.3 boards have ISA via a beige chip however.

I thought about getting one with a SK8 board, but the prices are abit high and finding a SBC for SK8 is not that simple, let alone one with two or more sockets.

Interesting. I thought of building a better system with that type of board (too bad the backplanes don't have AGP slots), but prices are expensive.

Lack of AGP tends to keeps me from getting one, that and the price of older SBC. P4 and 775 SBC are cheap, but SK7 or SK8 and 486 SBC tend to be pricey. lack of AGP would not be a big deal with SK7/8 or a 486, but I'd want it for a P4.

AGP is way better than PCI in my opinion since AGP has its own speed rate up to 2133MB/s (66MHz clock speed), whereas PCI is shared (133MB/s or 266MB/s at either 33MHz or 66MHz clock speed by PCI revision numbers) and more than 1 PCI card can cause the speed to go down).