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Motherboards (Microcomputers)

LC control no.sh 91002177
LC classificationTK7895.B33
Topical headingMotherboards (Microcomputers)
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Variant(s)Backpanels (Microcomputers)
Backplanes (Microcomputers)
CPU boards
Main boards (Microcomputers)
Mother boards (Microcomputers)
Planar boards (Microcomputers)
See alsoComputer interfaces
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Microcomputers
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Printed circuits
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Found inWork cat.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE standard for backplane electrical performance, 1991.
ASTI: p. 278, under Bus (Transmission lines) articles ("The demands of logic and power on backplanes" and "VLSI ... backplane development")
Encyc. electronics (Backplane also known as backpanel and motherboard. A circuit board that functions as an interconnection between two or more circuit boards within an enclosure of an electronic product or system. It is a rigid circuit board on which printed circuit board connectors have been assembled in uniform rows.)
McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. ("a wiring board constructed as a printed circuit used in microcomputers and minicomputers to provide required connections between logic, memory, input/output modules, and other printed circuit boards.)
Random House (Motherboard)
Encyc. of main boards, 1992.
Compute! Dec. 1987: p. 29 (IBM now calls the system board the Planar board)
IEEE, 1993 (Backplane)
Sippl, C.J. Computer dict., 1985 (Backplane; mother board)
Sinclair, I.R. Computer terms, 1991 (motherboard)
Encyc. of computer science, 1993 (Motherboard)
Edmunds, R.A. The Prentice-hall standard glossary of computer terminology, 1984 (motherboard)
UMI business vocab.
Not found inHennepin; IAC; INIS; Web. 3