Re: [opensuse] motherboard search engine

Istvan Gabor wrote:

2012. január 19. 16:53 napon David Haller <dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> írta:

Hello,

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Is there a search engine/page for PC motherboards where I
can find motherboards by properties, eg. floppy, serial
port, parallel port, IDE port support?

To some extent (all in german, but the descriptions are pretty
selfexplanatory using standard names):
http://geizhals.de
http://geizhals.at


Thank you all for the suggestions.
The Gigabyte mobos your mentioned look OK.
The historical comments are also interesting.
I did not work with such old hardwares but I used in the
mid 90s a Colorado tape driver in DOS.
As for the addon cards, most of the new mobos I've seen
has only 1 PCI slot, that is I should choose between
a floppy, serial, or parallel port PCI card.
And yes, I use these old ports: parallel for my workhorse
old printer, serial for my fax modem, and floppy for
loading diagnostic tools like SeaTools etc.

Diagnostic tools such as seatools can often be loaded onto a USB stick
or CDROM too. Serial ports are also available via USB, although with
some restrictions iirc.


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