What even is this???

[Perms_]

( Ebay listing  ) Ive never heard or seen a processor  board that looks like it fits in the pci express lane looks interesting tho  

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, Perms_ said:

( Ebay listing  ) Ive never heard or seen a processor  board that looks like it fits in the pci express lane looks interesting tho 

It's just a very minimal i486 - based PC that gets its power from the bus. These kinds of setups are rather rare nowadays, but they existed so you could basically have multiple PCs in the same case and could e.g. run some long-running number-crunching on one of these while the main system was handling user-interfaces and other critical stuff.

[Radium_Angel]

31 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

it's not PCIe, no, or PCI or AGP or anything like that.

Microchannel architecture perhaps? One of those forgotten IBM-designed slots that never took off.

[Radium_Angel]

46 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

Almost certainly pci-x

Here's another blast from the past:

PCI hardcard

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Plus-Development-HardCard-20-8-Bit-HDD-for-XT-Computers-AS-IS-/323803787472

[WhitetailAni]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

Here's another blast from the past:

PCI hardcard

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Plus-Development-HardCard-20-8-Bit-HDD-for-XT-Computers-AS-IS-/323803787472

That's not PCI...
That's 8-bit ISA.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, yaboistar said:

Was about to say, I know an ISA slot where I see one we still use hardware with ISA slots at work

I see an ISA card a lot because there's one right next to me.

I haven't put it in the basement yet.
Are there even PCI hard cards, or were those ISA only?

[Perms_]

3 hours ago, WereCatf said:

It's just a very minimal i486 - based PC that gets its power from the bus. These kinds of setups are rather rare nowadays, but they existed so you could basically have multiple PCs in the same case and could e.g. run some long-running number-crunching on one of these while the main system was handling user-interfaces and other critical stuff.

oh cool thanks 

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, ragnarok0273 said:

I see an ISA card a lot because there's one right next to me.

I haven't put it in the basement yet.
Are there even PCI hard cards, or were those ISA only?

They were ISA only, I had PCI on the brain, can't type today, no brain.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

They were ISA only, I had PCI on the brain, can't type today, no brain.

Did the goose take it?

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Did the goose take it?

No, it was an elephant.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

No, it was an elephant.

Guess I'll look around then.

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Guess I'll look around then.

Take your time, I work for the gov't, I don't really need it right away

[Sarra]

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