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maelstrm

maelstrm

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This board was in a 5150 case. Any ideas what it is? All I know is that it's a 286 board. No idea what brand. It will POST but I can't get past an error about "Floppy A not found", even with a floppy controller + drive connected. I think it might be expecting an XT keyboard instead of AT. I have an XT keyboard to try, just worried about connecting it to this board without knowing more. I don't want to fry my Type F IBM keyboard.

Torrance, California is home to Epson. So maybe it's from Epson?

https://imgur.com/a/KhfOOws
 
That’s pretty cool. I didn’t know there were 286 upgrade motherboards for 5150, though I guess I should have assumed there would have been.

I wonder if there were ever anything even newer.
 
jafir said:
That’s pretty cool. I didn’t know there were 286 upgrade motherboards for 5150, though I guess I should have assumed there would have been.

I wonder if there were ever anything even newer.
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It's just an AT board someone stuck in a case. But yeah it fits fine, the mounting screws line up with the standoffs and the ISA slots align with the case slot openings.
 
It’s a 5 slot PC board, right? AT uses the XT slot spacing.

Based on what modem7 posted, maybe it’s this one:

Wave Mate BULLET 286 018-022/5 (PC-version)

Wave Mate BULLET 286 018-022/5 (PC-version) is a motherboard based on the (any brand) XT/286, National SCX6218UNK Gate Array Based Chipset chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!
theretroweb.com theretroweb.com
 
jafir said:
It’s a 5 slot PC board, right? AT uses the XT slot spacing.

Based on what modem7 posted, maybe it’s this one:

Wave Mate BULLET 286 018-022/5 (PC-version)

Wave Mate BULLET 286 018-022/5 (PC-version) is a motherboard based on the (any brand) XT/286, National SCX6218UNK Gate Array Based Chipset chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!
theretroweb.com theretroweb.com
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Looks like the right board, just a different version. The one I have is 018. Thank you! And that's a great site you shared.
 
At [here] is shown the Wave Mate BULLET-286, an upgrade for the XT. I expect that the power supply would need to be upgraded as well. And perhaps the keyboard.
 
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