taylord@spock (Don Taylor) (08/18/90)
Has anyone got any recommendations for a replacement motherboard for the original Epson Equity III+ (the one that runs at 10 MHz.). The (possible?) problem being that the Epson motherboard is a two-part jobby plus a daughter-board. Epson DO like to be different - curse them. One part contains all of the squirrally little electronic gizmos, and the other part is for the slots. The two parts mate together to form a single plane motherboard. I could be wrong, but I think that this combination results in a motherboard with non-standard dimensions (what are the normal dimensions of a 386 motherboard?). I want to upgrade to a 386, mostly to run Win 3.0 at its best. Price is more important than speed so an SX would do. Actually an SX that allowed me to re-use my existing 120ns. dip memory would be nice. I have seen ad.s from Microway for an SX board that plugs into an AT slot and has a connector into the 286 processor carrier. It sounds attractive. They claim that you can use all of your existing AT extended memory and not lose significant performance because of a 4-way cache that they have on the board. The catch is that I find their performance claims unbelievable, and their prices a bit high (us$495 for a 16mhz 386SX). Has anyone got any experience with this board? Thanks in advance, Don PS. Please send any e-mail replies to the address below. Don Taylor (613)-592-2122 x 3007 mitel!taylord@uunet.uu.net Mitel Corp. ...!uunet!mitel!taylord 350 Legget Drive, Kanata Ontario, Canada, K2K 1X3 -- Don Taylor (613)-592-2122 x 3007 mitel!taylord@uunet.uu.net Mitel Corp. ...!uunet!mitel!taylord 350 Legget Drive, Kanata Ontario, Canada, K2K 1X3