[SOLVED] Motherboard that supports all/most legacy hardware

[jacobmin]

Hallo there. I wonder whether there is any new motherboard that natively supports all or most of the legacy ports and hardware. For example, floppy disks, parallel ports, serial ports, even tape drives for storing data on magnetic cassette tapes. I am aware of the fact that there are usb adaptors for some of the old hardware, but I do not want that.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[kanewolf]

Hallo there. I wonder whether there is any new motherboard that natively supports all or most of the legacy ports and hardware. For example, floppy disks, parallel ports, serial ports, even tape drives for storing data on magnetic cassette tapes. I am aware of the fact that there are usb adaptors for some of the old hardware, but I do not want that.

Then the answer is no. You will find specialized embedded motherboards that have more legacy ports, especially serial and parallel. But a SCSI port for tape? NOPE. Floppy port? I doubt it. IDE port? nope. If you need a floppy drive, you should buy a USB version. If you have an IDE drive, you should buy a sata adapter, copy the drive and then dispose of it.

 

[jacobmin]

Thanks. Ok, how about the old used motherboards? But then they will not support modern RAM, storage, and CPU, right? Fick, I thought there had to be something for weird people like me.

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks. Ok, how about the old used motherboards? But then they will not support modern RAM, storage, and CPU, right? Fick, I thought there had to be something for weird people like me.

The solution is multiple systems.

I kept a 1998 era Dell laptop around, because it was the only portable device I had with a serial port. That port needed because it was the interface for an OBDII cable I had.
Kept it around and used it until 2014 or so.

Booting it up reminded me why new PCs are a good thing. 10 minutes from power button to semi-usable state.