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Decent socket 370 motherboard in Baby AT form factor.

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alpher

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Looking for a decent performing prefferably Intel 810 chipset Baby AT form factor motherboard.
Either socket 370 or slot1 are fine, I need minimum 2 PCI slots preferably more one ISa slot would be great. BX chipset would be fine, if you have a decent performing AMD moobo will consider that too.
Either way the most important is the form factor, it must be Baby AT .
Thanks.
 
wow, I wrote a whole post detailing how this unholy combination never existed, then started looking out of sheer curiosity. Turns out some exist! look: https://www.ebay.com/itm/273723505524

why 810?

The seller is a jabbering jackass for charging extra for the i/o cables that you kinda are required to have, but at least you have a model to look for. That said, he has one. but shipping from latvia...

Another option is the Asus MEW-B, but I don't see any on ePay at the moment. (i'd hold out for the Asus)
 
:p I've seen what's on eBay, may have to settle for one of these but, none of them suits me 100%.
For starters they all really far away (Latvia, Ukraine etc.) secondly none of them has all the features I need and there is the price :( .
Board like this is pretty much worthless these days, not old enough to be a vintage and certainly not usable as a modern computing platform.
So looks like nobody in N.A. considers them worthy enough to even list them for sale.
And I do really need one, out of desperation I just meassured the case dimmensions hoping that maybe mini ATX could be fitted there (butchering the back of it of course) , no go.
For the curious minds here, a pic of the patient in question:
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I have an Asus P2B-B system that I might consider parting out. Baby AT, Slot 1, 440BX, AGP, 3*PCI, 2*ISA. Currently has a PIII 550, 320MB ECC, Matrox G+/PROA/4BC/2U, Promise Ultra66, Adaptec 2910 SCSI, etc. I built about 1/2 dozen systems based on this motherboard and up to 1GHz PIII's ... all were rock solid.

If you're interested, PM me with a reasonable offer.
 
That hardware looks really specialized, I'd recommend keeping original if possible. If you MUST upgrade, I'd suggest a 440BX board as they are stable, reliable and reasonably priced.

The possibility exists that the software and special hardware expect a certain motherboard with a certain chipset.

What's the purpose of the system anyway? Might I ask?
 
luckybob said:
That hardware looks really specialized, I'd recommend keeping original if possible. If you MUST upgrade, I'd suggest a 440BX board as they are stable, reliable and reasonably priced.

The possibility exists that the software and special hardware expect a certain motherboard with a certain chipset.

What's the purpose of the system anyway? Might I ask?
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Sure, but first let have some fun :p
Can anybody guess what it is?
It runs windows 95 or 98 but it's not a computer at all, i'ts been proven to work with any reasonable motherboard as long as it fully supports windows 98.
It has a really specialized hardware inside that the drivers only exist for windows 9x .
And is still a very usefull piece of equipment with rather hi end specs.
Can you guess?
 
The 810/810E boards were were a mixed bag. If you've got ISA slots, I'd pick a 440BX chipset board over an 8xx board any day. Slot 1 boards are probably a bit more common in the semi-vintage market than Socket 370, but still can turn in very respectable performance.
 
I've been looking at the same 'fastest baby-AT motherboard' issue (Dolch PAC 66/486). Baby-AT 370/slot 1 motherboards are very few and far between. Lots more selection in the SuperSocket 7, AMD-K6-III motherboards.
 
Chuck(G) said:
The 810/810E boards were were a mixed bag. If you've got ISA slots, I'd pick a 440BX chipset board over an 8xx board any day. Slot 1 boards are probably a bit more common in the semi-vintage market than Socket 370, but still can turn in very respectable performance.
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I could probably live without ISA, the 2 ISA cards used here are ethernet, which I could easy replace with PCI one or skip alltogether as it's not essential to operation.
The second is IEEE 488 / GPIB , also could live without.
 
Budgett? that would depend, but ballpark figure ~ $50 bucks, judging for what they're going on eBay.
 
OK, bought PCParnter BSB871S from a guy in Ukraine, will see how it goes, $45 shipping included.
But the frustration continues, looks like the windows 98 startup floppy doesn't include Format command ?
Is that so? or I have some defective copy, downloaded from winworld site, I fdisked the CF drive that I put instead of a dead IBM travelstar that came with the unit, no issues here.
But how the f..ck I'm supposed to format the damn thing?
I's getting even better, just realized that I don't ave any IDE CD drives anymore, will have to source one, I remember well throwing something like 20 of them away some years ago, :(
And here's some pics of whats its all about:

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alpher said:
Sure, but first let have some fun :p
Can anybody guess what it is?
It runs windows 95 or 98 but it's not a computer at all, i'ts been proven to work with any reasonable motherboard as long as it fully supports windows 98.
It has a really specialized hardware inside that the drivers only exist for windows 9x .
And is still a very usefull piece of equipment with rather hi end specs.
Can you guess?
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"It runs windows 95 or 98 but it's not a computer at all,"
I thought OSCILLOSCOPE!
Scrolled down... :p

I'd love to snag one like this at some point... But I need to avoid giving into impulse purchasing. My 20MHz analogue does most of what I need (the pots could use a cleaning though), and my HP 16500B takes oscilloscope cards, so I might want to just track down one of those for a good price.
 
blackepyon said:
"It runs windows 95 or 98 but it's not a computer at all,"
I thought OSCILLOSCOPE!
Scrolled down... :p

I'd love to snag one like this at some point... But I need to avoid giving into impulse purchasing. My 20MHz analogue does most of what I need (the pots could use a cleaning though), and my HP 16500B takes oscilloscope cards, so I might want to just track down one of those for a good price.
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Stay away while you still can, test equipment addiction is very real and costly!!!:cool:
This would be my 7th scope, I really need to get rid of couple of them, but how?? I like them all :D
 
alpher said:
Stay away while you still can, test equipment addiction is very real and costly!!!:cool:
This would be my 7th scope, I really need to get rid of couple of them, but how?? I like them all :D
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Yeah. Best thing to do is make a list of the stuff you ACTUALLY need and just keep an eye for when it's on for a good price.
I actually picked up my HP 16500B at a local retro-computer meet. The guy had a second one and wanted to get rid of it, and I offered him $100, he said, "sold!" I was looking at cheap USB logic analyzers online, but this was the right thing at the right price and the right time, especially given what shipping would have cost if I got one of these on eBay :eek:
 
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