On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, John Willis wrote:
> FWIW, the IBM term for "motherboard" was "planar", at least in the era of
> the PC, PC/XT, PC/AT, etc.
I believe I saw it on Lenovo ThinkPad part lists some 5 years ago, so the
term must have survived well beyond the PC/AT, etc.
Maciej
On 2016-02-28 7:32 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Does anyone know the origins of the term 'motherboard'?
...
I was amused to learn that other languages sometimes translate it
literally. Portuguese uses "placa mãe" - "board mother". (Pt takes lots
of other technical terms from English and
Yes... The SBX cards!
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> On Feb 29, 2016, at 12:18 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> Didn't Intel use what it called "daugherboards" on some of its line of
> Multibus products? That is, the "offspring" products plugged into the
> Multibus
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Didn't Intel use what it called "daugherboards" on some of its line of
Multibus products? That is, the "offspring" products plugged into the
Multibus card, not the backplane.
Am I remembering correctly?
And, could it be that SOME use of the word
Didn't Intel use what it called "daugherboards" on some of its line of
Multibus products? That is, the "offspring" products plugged into the
Multibus card, not the backplane.
Am I remembering correctly?
--Chuck
> Does anyone know the origins of the term 'motherboard'?
>
> I've always associated it with computers and assumed that it started
> appearing somewhere around 1980, with the fading out of passive backplane
> systems and arrival of machines which put more functionality onto a 'core'
> PCB into
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, John Willis wrote:
FWIW, the IBM term for "motherboard" was "planar", at least in the era
of the PC, PC/XT, PC/AT, etc. The first computer to which I had access
was my father's 5150 in approximately 1984; I remember the machine came
with dual floppy drives and a 64K system
>
> FWIW, the IBM term for "motherboard" was "planar", at least in the era of
> the PC, PC/XT, PC/AT, etc.
But IBM (at that time) also used the term 'Planar' for 'backplane'. The
backplane
in the 5161 expansion unit [1] is labelled 'I/O Planar' or something very
similar
in the silkscreen.
[1]
>
> Computers existed way before 1980, and had many boards plugged into
> wire-wrapped backplanes or motherboards.I'm guessing the terminology
> was company-specific. IBM had their own name for EVERYTHING, for
> instance. They did NOT use the term motherboard, as far as I know. The
> SMS
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > Computers existed way before 1980, and had many boards plugged into
> > wire-wrapped backplanes or motherboards.
>
> Backplane was certainly a term from way back, I just don't recall seeing
> motherboard before somewhere around the 1980 timeframe.
On 02/28/2016 06:40 PM, Jason Scott wrote:
Stack Exchange entry which suggests it goes back to the 1950's.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10386/why-motherboard-is-used-to-refer-to-main-board-of-computer
Thanks! It would be interesting to see the context there, and if there were
On 02/28/2016 06:50 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Computers existed way before 1980, and had many boards plugged into
wire-wrapped backplanes or motherboards.
Backplane was certainly a term from way back, I just don't recall seeing
motherboard before somewhere around the 1980 timeframe. Maybe you're
On 02/28/2016 06:32 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Does anyone know the origins of the term 'motherboard'?
I've always associated it with computers and assumed that
it started appearing somewhere around 1980, with the
fading out of passive backplane systems and arrival of
machines which put
Stack Exchange entry which suggests it goes back to the 1950's.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10386/why-motherboard-is-used-to-refer-to-main-board-of-computer
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jules Richardson <
jules.richardso...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the origins
Does anyone know the origins of the term 'motherboard'?
I've always associated it with computers and assumed that it started
appearing somewhere around 1980, with the fading out of passive backplane
systems and arrival of machines which put more functionality onto a 'core'
PCB into which
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