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		gaudat on March 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adding an ISA Slot to a Modern Motherboard [video] I never understood how these motherboards work given that they look more like expansion cards. Now I know the intended way is to plug that into a backplane and wire the bus interfaces out.

emeraldd on March 23, 2023 [–]

The mainboard is the card and the part with the connectors is just a passive backplane.

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