Motherboard

The main printed circuit board in an electronic device, which contains sockets that accept additional boards. In a personal computer, the motherboard contains the bus, CPU and coprocessor sockets, memory sockets, keyboard controller and supporting chips. Chips that control the video display, serial and parallel ports, mouse and disk drives may or may not be present on the motherboard. If not, they are independent controllers that are plugged into an expansion slot on the motherboard.

AMD

CHIPS

AMD

Apple 1

Apple ][ plus

Apple MacPlus
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Atari 800

NeXT Cube

AMD-K6-2/350mhz

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