Part C: Junk Yard Special

One weekend you visit a local computer swap meet. While rummaging through a “junk box” at a vendor’s stall, you unwrap an antistatic bag to find this somewhat “strange looking” motherboard:

1. Consider the internal expansion interfaces:

a) Why does it have two CPU sockets? What CPU socket standard do they appear to be?

b) What memory standard does it appear to use? How can you tell?

2 When picking this motherboard up out of curiosity, you notice several experienced computer enthusiasts starting to recognise what you have in your hand, and start offering their own stories to tell about this motherboard model.

a) What is the make and model of this motherboard?

b) What made this motherboard model so memorable for enthusiasts?

3. One of the enthusiasts has strong doubts that this motherboard, or any other of the same vintage, still works today. .

a) What would be your first suspicion as to why they say that?

b) How does the design and construction of the motherboard in Part A differ, which makes this particular failure mode less of a problem to worry about?