Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > You said that your using a 486, now pentiums were the first
> > boards
> > introduced with built in ide/floppy & com/serial ports.
>
> Not necessarily!
>
> There were heaps of boards manufactured with com/ide etc onboard.
> Also, this machine happens to be a Compaq, so the board was custom
> built to include the lot.
Yep, plenty of yum cha stuff from taiwan as well. I had an Octek Rhino
15 (486 mobo with everything on board) operating as a Samba server for
about 2 years until recently. My surplus hardware list has four other
486 motherboards of similar nature on it. So they were around, but not
for long.
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