wow..i dint know that this existed...

[Inspector Jihad]

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[Ike0069]

Whoa, that is cool.

I've heard something like that existed, but I've never seen one before.

 

[shabby]

Looks intresting, but i think a used old pc would be faster and cheaper.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: shabby
Looks intresting, but i think a used old pc would be faster and cheaper.

no doubt, but its still interesting nonetheless

 

[imported_fx]

Wow.. It's looks pretty awesome.

 

[n7]

I'm buying two...not

Interesting anyway.

 

[secretanchitman]

nice idea...and p3s (IMO) werent that bad at all...

 

[F1shF4t]

Nothing new really, u can get p1 166mhz all the way to pentium m, cards like that. Its more in the profecional field thats why a lot of consumers never see these things much.
Even old ISA busses are still used for a lot I/O cards etc.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

what are they used for?

 

[krotchy]

I could see buying this thing, getting 2 big PATA drives and basically running a file server and a workstation inside one case.

*edit* I mean I could see doing it, I know I would never do it and it may not perform that well, but its dooable.

 

[Smartazz]

Nice find, a rather useless item though.

 

[larciel]

suddenly I miss voodoo 5

 

[ForumMaster]

cool idea. but it is probablly pretty slow. however, it is cool.

 

[chimpy]

 

[zephyrprime]

Stuff like this used to be a lot more common in the pre-pentium era. They were just never popular because it was easier and more flexible to buy a whole new MB/CPU or a whole new machine.

 

[TSCrv]

Originally posted by: krotchy
I could see buying this thing, getting 2 big PATA drives and basically running a file server and a workstation inside one case.

*edit* I mean I could see doing it, I know I would never do it and it may not perform that well, but its dooable.

thats exactly what they are for, i had 2 of them before i sold 1 for about what they are going for now,... used an old mobo with no cpu as a way to supply power, with 2 of those suckers in (a bit different, they werent s370)... as a way to store my ISOs, and i forget what else...

but the main purpose for these things is bragging rights back in the day.... i also have one old system that uses just a EISA bus as a backpane, everything on 1 card , and a 5 channel intel 960 scsi controller (iirc) as a 2nd card... (the backpane looks like the one on ebay, but it has NO circuitry, only a bus)

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
Nothing new really, u can get p1 166mhz all the way to pentium m, cards like that. Its more in the profecional field thats why a lot of consumers never see these things much.
Even old ISA busses are still used for a lot I/O cards etc.

True. Quite a few industries use "back plane cards" that consist of nothing more than ISA slots and an ATX PSU connection. Then you plug all cards into the back plane, including entire "motherboards."

We used to supply boards like these to climate control companies.

 

[TWills2]

Reminds me of a certain discontinued Maximum PC monthly article...