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Re:Identify ESDI Drive by metadat on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:43PM (#31536198)
Some old circuit boards are so beautiful, I love when they're jam-packed full of microchips over every possible surface.

The common hardware of today is comparatively dull and mundane.

I humbly posit that the old PCI cards from the 90s and early 2000s with RAM expansion slots were (are?) about as sexy as a circuit board can get .^^.

And let's not forget the legendary 3DFX Voodoo 5 6000, which is just..

https://static.tweaktown.com/news/6/7/67383_01_legendary-3df...

https://static.tweaktown.com/news/6/7/67383_02_legendary-3df...

Re:Identify ESDI Drive by credittw2021 on Friday May 27, 2022 @10:04PM (#31536975)
My personal fave are the old Gravis UltraSound ISA boards. Red PCBs almost a decade before anyone cared.