ASRock IMB-X1712 is an ATX motherboard that uses Intel W680 chipset.
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schmidtbag
I know this is targeted toward industrial applications but it's still weird seeing such a hodgepodge of old and new tech.
rl66
Not so when you see that some "old" card still cost more than 10 000 Euro or doesn't exist in PCIe and are vital for production.
schmidtbag
No I know that, I just meant I'm not used to it. It's kind of like seeing a carburetor in a hybrid car.
anticupidon
There are a lot of old equipment still running in industrial and medical field and upgrading or changing the motherboards is a huge headache.
Had several cases, one a old water pump facility running MS-DOS 5.0 on old 20GB HDDs. Had to "cut" at firmware level some old 80GB IDE HDDs - recovering the data from the damaged disk. Put it back together, create a image, clone it on the "new" HDd and then changing some setting bon the new HDD happily running MSDOS.
Another, a PCI card controller for a printing facility, installed into a old Fujitsu computer. Motherboard went belly up, had to buy one from eBay with PCI socket 939.
That controller / computer managed the printing facility, the paper cutting operations, offsetting, stacking and some more. Manual was in Japanese.
Luckily we have eBay for spare parts and Translate on our smartphone...
So yeah, that mambo jambo motherboard makes a lot of sense for niche industry.
And usually those clients are only concerned about availability, not price.
rl66
There is even some with ISA, Floppy and IDE port by extra controler with recent CPU 🙂
schmidtbag
Haha well then, that's like seeing a hybrid with a steam powered engine. At least the ISA slot would make it that way, floppy and IDE ports aren't as much of a surprise to me.
I haven't seen an ISA slot in well over a decade, but I do still have some ISA cards.
