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Memory card wanted

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Amigaz

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I know this may be a long shot...
Does anyone have a memory card that fits in the special memory slot at the bottom of this motherboard and is willing to sell it to me? *pretty, please?* :)

 
Are you sure that's a memory slot? Didn't some full length ISA or EISA cards utilize that? The motherboard looks like normally it just takes regular 30 pin SIMMs.
 
Terry Yager said:
Can you ID the board more specifically?

--T
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As you can see the only ID the board has is some serial numbers and "386-33" + the version and revision numbers but no model code whatsoever, can't find it on Total Hardware '99 or similar sites either.
Gotta love this era when everything was "no name", I guess computer consumers back then didn't know better so they couldn't demand any quality from the manafacturers either :(

I think the bios post has some more info...I'll look into it tomorrow and report back here
 
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barythrin said:
Are you sure that's a memory slot? Didn't some full length ISA or EISA cards utilize that? The motherboard looks like normally it just takes regular 30 pin SIMMs.
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Yep, I'm quite positive.

There's no expansion card except a memory card that uses such a slot.

The board simm slots only take 4meg total RAM which would be a very tiny ammount of RAM for this period (1989-90)
 
I had a similar board, with the memory card (I can't find the thread right now) and I think that it was Nige that posted me a 386 CPU for it, but, the MoBo was toast.

However, my MB didn't have any on-board memory at all, but, the power connector placement was the same, which is in an unusual spot.

I don't know if I tossed it or not, but, I'll look around over the next couple of days to see.
 
Unfortunately, it's my experience with similar boards, it's usually an either/or situation. I've never seen one that allowed the use of the onboard RAM along with the slot, as both are addressed as bank 0/1 (The advantage being that the proprietary slot/board is faster, being 32-bit). Of course, YMMV.

--T
 
Druid6900 said:
I had a similar board, with the memory card (I can't find the thread right now) and I think that it was Nige that posted me a 386 CPU for it, but, the MoBo was toast.

However, my MB didn't have any on-board memory at all, but, the power connector placement was the same, which is in an unusual spot.

I don't know if I tossed it or not, but, I'll look around over the next couple of days to see.
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A Micronics 386, perhaps? I've got one of those--6MB on a memory card with a second board piggybacked on it.

The expansion slot in question could be any number of several--DTK, for example (which this boards looks a lot like), but there were many others. ISTR that such early cards were peculiar to each manufacturer.
 
Druid6900 said:
I had a similar board, with the memory card (I can't find the thread right now) and I think that it was Nige that posted me a 386 CPU for it, but, the MoBo was toast.

However, my MB didn't have any on-board memory at all, but, the power connector placement was the same, which is in an unusual spot.

I don't know if I tossed it or not, but, I'll look around over the next couple of days to see.
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Thanks :)

I really appreciate your effort and hope you find that board ;)
 
Chuck(G) said:
A Micronics 386, perhaps? I've got one of those--6MB on a memory card with a second board piggybacked on it.

The expansion slot in question could be any number of several--DTK, for example (which this boards looks a lot like), but there were many others. ISTR that such early cards were peculiar to each manufacturer.
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Which I knew who manafactured my board..

So you think your board will fit?
Any chance you can part with it? I mean if you don't use it?
 
Amigaz said:
Which I knew who manafactured my board..

So you think your board will fit?
Any chance you can part with it? I mean if you don't use it?
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No, my Micronics uses a different (smaller) connector near the rear bulkhead. Besides, it's the only memory on my 386--there are no memory positions on the motherboard (this is an old 386--no custom LSI. Just TTL glue and PALs).
 
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