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by accrual
313 days ago
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Yes, the earliest mainboards I know of with on-board I/O including ATA is around Socket 5, the first mainstream Pentium boards. Some slightly older Socket 4 boards (circa 1994) have on-board I/O, but they weren't as common. My 486 and earlier systems have all I/O provided by ISA cards, other than the 5-pin DIN keyboard port which was standard since the original PC. |
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Details here: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/dell-system-486p
But, yes, most bog standard machines would've had a separate "SuperIO" card containing serial, parallel, and IDE interfaces until the mid 90s.