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by roryirvine 320 days ago
I remember my dad's Dell 486P/33 from 1991 had integrated IDE, but that was a fairly high-end machine at the time (the forerunner of their "Precision" workstation range).

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.

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Wow! Very impressive board, I had no idea. It's kinda cool how we can directly see some of the chips that would be on the SuperIO card but directly on the mainboard. Thanks for sharing.