Motherboards on PCI card...

[wnied]

Hey people,

Awhile back, someone had an article on computers that a company made where the full motherboard with RAM, CPU, video, and sound were on a PCI card that hooked into a larger circuit board in a rack system. So basically you had a server with about 5 to 10 PCI slots that held these full computers on a card.
Anyone know where I can find these things?

All help is appreciated.
~wnied~

 

[BSEagle1]

Are you sure you weren't reading about the Mini-ITX computers? I'm looking on Google and not finding anything.

 

[wnied]

I've been scouring Google also and something I've come across are called Single board computers. Microspace EBX is the name of one of the ones I've found.

Anyone else know what I'm talking about?

~wnied~

 

[derekblankmccoy]

Yes I remember seeing it some years back I think it was made by Evergreen Tech or Powerleap the one that made it as an upgrade to old 486 machines. It was like a riser with its own processor, ram and memory controller.
A quick look at both of their sites suggests the product is no longert available. Although I would have liked to know exactly how it worked.

 

[buleyb]

Yeah, we've used those, and they work well with an big PCI backplane...

go HERE

Let me know what you think....


btw, don't expect average motherboard+CPU prices with what you are looking for these. Its a niche market to say the least...

 

[wnied]

BuleyB

You RAWK! Thats exactly what I was looking for! My boss came to me asking to find him these things, and I hadnt seen them in almost 5 years online. We have machinery out on our shop floor that is driven by old pentium II computers, we wanted to eliminate our need to have the computers physically located out on the shop floor with the heavy machinery. Made for some seriously oily mess on our hands and clothes. So our idea is to setup a server backplane and connect the machines through extender KVM lines run through the ceiling and dropped right to the machines themselves, so that workers will have only the Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor at their stations and the computer card driving it will reside in our server room. Nice and clean like.

In theory it sounds like a plan, but then again so does every other "good" idea.
~wnied~

 

[buleyb]

Well best of luck. Like I said before, I've used these, and they are nice.

 

[acemcmac]

I remember you could get a 486 on a 'compatibility card' from orangepc with its own ram and stuff for a mac back in the day...

 

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