Back in the day there was no backplane and the only port on the mobo was the AT keyboard port so that was the only hole in the case. The rest were punchouts for parallel and various serial ports that would be connected to the mobo via ribbon cable. When the first ATX mobos came out they kept the punchouts for the backplane but that required all the manufacturers to use the same port layout so that lasted all of like 2 years before the pop-in shield became the norm.
How are the new ones getting around the different port layouts?
The shield is built into the mobo, not the case. Same footprint as the ones you insert into the case (before the mobo, but dont accidentally bend the spacer tabs and lose access to the Ethernet port) but without the ADHD getting in the way.
That’s a funny way of spelling “slicing the fuck out of your finger and having to take a 2-day break from the build because your fine motor skills are shit with a band-aid on”.
Speaking of ADHD getting in the way, despite the previous commenter saying mobo I was still imagining it the other way around. That makes way more sense.
(Ugh, the number of times I’ve cut myself trying to get the Ethernet shield out of the way)
Back in the day there was no backplane and the only port on the mobo was the AT keyboard port so that was the only hole in the case. The rest were punchouts for parallel and various serial ports that would be connected to the mobo via ribbon cable. When the first ATX mobos came out they kept the punchouts for the backplane but that required all the manufacturers to use the same port layout so that lasted all of like 2 years before the pop-in shield became the norm.
How are the new ones getting around the different port layouts?
The shield is built into the mobo, not the case. Same footprint as the ones you insert into the case
(before the mobo, but dont accidentally bend the spacer tabs and lose access to the Ethernet port)but without the ADHD getting in the way.That’s a funny way of spelling “slicing the fuck out of your finger and having to take a 2-day break from the build because your fine motor skills are shit with a band-aid on”.
Speaking of ADHD getting in the way, despite the previous commenter saying mobo I was still imagining it the other way around. That makes way more sense.
(Ugh, the number of times I’ve cut myself trying to get the Ethernet shield out of the way)