[Tech1] iMac

[Bernard Newnham]

Motherboards only have USB ports these days, but serial to USB adaptors 
are easily available. This man explains -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzCNfBux1h0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-USB-Serial-Adapter-Powered/dp/B004ZMYTYC?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_4

Don't forget that motherboards will accept a range of processors and 
memory, but generally only fairly recent ones. Mine says -

/"Support for 9th and 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 processors/Intel® 
Core™ i7 processors/Intel® Core™ i5 processors/Intel® Core™ i3 
processors/Intel® Pentium® processors/Intel® Celeron® processors in the 
LGA1151 package"

/and

/"Š4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory//
//ŠŠDual channel memory architecture//
//ŠŠSupport for DDR4 2666/2400/2133 MHz memory modules//
//ŠŠSupport for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory"

/Modern motherboards only have PCIe slots, so your soundcard won't work, 
but there'll be some USB3 connected equivalent.  My Behringer sound 
mixer has USB in and out

B /
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On 23/01/2020 16:56, Dave Plowman via Tech1 wrote:
> Just an ask about this. My workshop desktop PC has a proper serial port,
> which I use with MegaSquirt (an aftermarket car ECU I build and repair)
> The MB on it - pretty old, but does what I need - failed, and I couldn't
> find one which said it had a Serial port. It also has an ex BBC Digigram
> sound card with balanced analogue in outs, as well as the pro digital
> standards. And wanted to be sure all that would still work - so bought a
> used identical MB. But would be willing to lash out on a better spec one,
> if I could. Without having to spend an extra fortune updating other things
> I use.
>
>
> In article <1cb7de29-9c40-08c1-daf1-807908de8c8f at gmail.com>,
>     Bernard Newnham via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>> On updating computers. A few months back I started running DaVinci
>> Resolve in a reasonably serious manner. It's free, so my U3A group can
>> just download it and use it without any great commitment. The PC build
>> that I had dated from various years, but the motherboard was 2012, a bit
>> creaky now, and pretty slow at rendering Fusion stuff. So I bought a new
>> motherboard (Gigabyte Z390), processor (Core i5 9600K) and 8Gb memory.
>> Everything else stayed - box, power supply, drives, graphics card
>> (GeForce 960) and monitors. Under £500 the lot. I can put in more memory
>> or update parts as I wish. Windows 10 just accepted it. It isn't a
>> pretty box, but I regard computers as industrial machinery rather than
>> limousines. The motherboard does have pretty blue LEDs around on it,
>> like go faster stripes. I've turned them off.

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