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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!navaho!dml7
- From: dml7@navaho.uucp (25635-lee)
- Subject: Re: Motherboards which fit into a PS/2 box?
- Reply-To: dml7@navaho.UUCP (25635-lee,danny)
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:48:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.124822.14307@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Aug11.164837.27301@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug12.100612@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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- In article <1992Aug12.100612@axion.bt.co.uk> djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Aug11.164837.27301@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
- >sabrom@cebaf9.cebaf.gov (Seth Bromberger) writes:
- >|> Does anyone know of any motherboards which will fit into a
- >|> PS/2 (50Z) box?
- >|> The response I got from a dealer was that the ports are in
- >|> a really funny place
- >|> and a normal MB wouldn't do the job. Apart from that, I
- >|> guess the main
- >|> consideration would be a proper power supply.
- >|>
- >|> I'm looking to upgrade (fully) my '286 to a true 32-bit
- >|> machine (none of this
- >|> SLC stuff). Any help would be appreciated.
- >
- >Well the obvious one is a Model 70 mother board which will
- >work with your
- >current disk drive, power supply and memory modules AND fit
- >in place with no
- >problems !
- >
- >Apart from that I've not seen any non IBM boards which fit at
- >all
-
- is that a wise thing to do? even so, are there people that are
- willing to sell a model 70 motherboard? how much does ps/2
- motherboards go for anyways? where would you get them?
-
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- / Danny / dml7@navaho.cc.bellcore.com /
- / Lee / dml@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu /
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