Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread Toby Thain
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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread George Rachor
Yes... The SBX cards! Sent from my iPhone geo...@rachors.com > 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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread Fred Cisin
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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread Chuck Guzis
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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread Peter Cetinski
> 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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread Fred Cisin
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

RE: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread tony duell
> > 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]

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread John Willis
> > 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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-29 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
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.

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jules Richardson
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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jules Richardson
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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jon Elson
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

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jason Scott
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

'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jules Richardson
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