Most recent motherboard with VLB

[Sxotty]

Ok I have an important card that is VLB (vesa local bus) but no current motherboards exist that accept it, I have tried looking for the most recent motherbaord that had VLB, or even one that is for sale and has it but I cannot find it. The card is for a instrument (thus they charge like $3500 for a new PCI card, even though they could just sell it for cheap) in any case the old motherboard is dead, and I need something new to plug it into

Thanks if anyone actually knows.

 

[RanDum72]

The last CPU's to ever use a VLB, as far as I know, are the early Pentium 60/66. OK, maybe some Pentium 75-100 used them. NextGen, which AMD bought, also used VLB on some of their motheboards. 486 computers used VLB extensively. What kind of instrument is it used for? As long as its happy with a REALLY slow CPU, then you can probably salvage one. I think I still have a 486 PC with VLB somewhere in my garage (and it was working perfectly too.)

 

[Sxotty]

It is for a contact angle apparatus. It was on a 486 before, and the company actually does sell a new PCI card with some kind of adapter, but we did not want to have to spend a bunch of money. If you do have one that works though it would be cool, We might be able to find one around but most are dead that we have found here.

 

[GRIFFIN1]

Might have a VLB slot

This one looks like it has VLB

Another one

more

I'm getting bored

I just did a search on Ebay for "486"

 

[GRIFFIN1]

This auction is for 7 VLB boards. One of them has to work.

 

[outoftheblue]

Last VLB board I used was a 486 DX2/66 board... any higher than that, you start geting PCI slots (such as my DX4/100).

IBM continued the MCA bus into some of their early Pentiums, but that doesnt help you any...

 

[hans007]

vlb was used up to socket 5 pentium. opti made chipset for it, but it eventually died out, since at the time intel had just startedm aking chipsets and basically cornered the market. the fact that the opti chipset was slow didnt help either.


socket 5 pentium is up to 133mhz, but you can get adapters to run higher cpus.


VLB was a good standard in my opinion, we used it on our 486 DX 50 . so we were running a 32bit 50mhz bus which normal PCI is slower than.


for all who dont know, VLB looks like a 16bit isa slot with a 3 inch extender (usually green) on the front. it was a very long slot.