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Motherboards and PCI Slots ? ? ?
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Pro Signs & Graphix
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By the time you finish, you may still end up with an easy few hundred bucks in this machine unless you scrounge up some old parts. With your SignLab, you should be able to send all sorts of jobs to multiple machines via their spooler. The link below is for a Gigabyte that has 5 PCI, plus the PCI-e slots for video, and includes an on-borad LPT. That would give you a total of six possible LPT's. The availability of ATA and SATA will make a hard drive easy.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128084
Good for you! Innovative ideas are great.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128084
Good for you! Innovative ideas are great.
Service Sign Co
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6 PNC 1210'S what would you use that for,let me guess, Heat press material? I would have 1 for every commonly used color of vinyl
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particleman
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This is by far the way I would go. 6 parallel cards may not play nice together. USB route you will have alot less $$$ in it and it will probably work as good or better.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822998005
I have used one of these before with a plotter, worked well (still in use). Jobs are piped through the windows driver/windows print spooler with it since it creates a virtual printer port.
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DARLAK
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sounds like they need to have one control, synchronicity seems to be the key here.
a bunch of old 'cheap' CAMM 1's....
sounds like a techo-science-artsy project...
i want in....
Bob Gilliland
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The Asus P4P800-SE or P4P800-E Deluxe offers five PCI slots (plus an AGP and ASUS WiFi slot). Doesn’t get what you’re after on the original post (short on slot count and they are not US made), however, combined with three (or four/five) SIIG CyberParallel Dual IO cards or Lava Dual Parallel PCI IO cards will get you the parallel port count mentioned in post five.
Should be able to source either a “SE” or “deluxe” board via eBay. Been using SIIG and Lava I/O cards for not only my own builds for years, but others sign shops as well. Lava drivers usually have provisions for a bit more end user configuration and control verse SIIG drivers.
Good luck not matter what path you chose to travel down!
Should be able to source either a “SE” or “deluxe” board via eBay. Been using SIIG and Lava I/O cards for not only my own builds for years, but others sign shops as well. Lava drivers usually have provisions for a bit more end user configuration and control verse SIIG drivers.
Good luck not matter what path you chose to travel down!
Bob Gilliland
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Took a trip down to the basement after making the previous post. Amazing what you can find it the “outdated box of goodies” and the memories they bring back (some good, some not so good). 
Long ago I had a Thunder GC-HE S4520 setup as a server. Board was quad 603 socket based; I only ever had two in it. This thing has eight PCI slots (7 @ 64bit, 1 @ 32bit). Integrated Adaptec Ultra 160 SCSI controller as well as an integrated ATI Rage video chip (and dual LAN controllers). This was the foundation to a smoking machine at one point.
I also had another system based around a Tyan Tiger S1832 dual Slot 1 board. It only has five PCI slots but also includes, hold your breath, two legacy ISA slots! Also included, at the time, “blistering fast” AGP slot. Lots of dust on this one.
Found some notes on a SuperMicro P6DGH. Never had one but if the comments are correct, it offers nine PCI slots plus two ISA and one AGP. The notes don’t reveal why I never ended up getting this board. Might be worth trying to source via eBay or elsewhere.
Long ago I had a Thunder GC-HE S4520 setup as a server. Board was quad 603 socket based; I only ever had two in it. This thing has eight PCI slots (7 @ 64bit, 1 @ 32bit). Integrated Adaptec Ultra 160 SCSI controller as well as an integrated ATI Rage video chip (and dual LAN controllers). This was the foundation to a smoking machine at one point.
I also had another system based around a Tyan Tiger S1832 dual Slot 1 board. It only has five PCI slots but also includes, hold your breath, two legacy ISA slots! Also included, at the time, “blistering fast” AGP slot. Lots of dust on this one.
Found some notes on a SuperMicro P6DGH. Never had one but if the comments are correct, it offers nine PCI slots plus two ISA and one AGP. The notes don’t reveal why I never ended up getting this board. Might be worth trying to source via eBay or elsewhere.
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Found a board that has 9 PCI slots, but I'm gonna go a different route as I have experienced
that most boards will have conflicts with more than 3 PCI slots running at the same time . . .
that most boards will have conflicts with more than 3 PCI slots running at the same time . . .
