OT - 486 w/newer IDE drives

Thu Nov 23 12:25:50 CST 2006

On 23 Nov 2006 at 10:10, Chris M wrote:

>  Funny, this mobo has no onboard anything. Nada. Chips
> say "UMC". I have this skinny little IDE/floppy
> controller, with a Goldstar chip. This thing doesn't
> even have headers for serial or parallel ports. I have
> a Cyrix 486 DX2-66 and 16 megs of ram. There's an
> empty socket besides the uP - what in blazes is that
> for??? 

Some of these old boards were built to accommodate the Weitek 4167 
NDP.  I suspect that's what yours is for.

Cheers,
Chuck