Computer part

Usage examples of motherboard.

Parts of the onboard computer, including the motherboard, had been found.

It was only in retrospect, sometime in the early sixties I think, that we realized that the entire vehicle, minus creature comforts and skin, was basically a series of circuit boards inserted into a gigantic motherboard that was the whole lower deck of the thing.

It was only recently that we realized, with this scan and the old autopsy reports and correlation with the saucer as known, that not only was everything aboard plugged into that motherboard directly or indirectly, but so were the crew.

I had told Wilma that what we perceived as a monstrous computer motherboard was simply a representation of what was probably there.

Behold: the first motherboard was already in a chassis, being alpha-tested hastily, in the circumstances.

It felt almost as if they were gnats inside a giant old-fashioned computer box, with the floor a great motherboard covered with winding lines and square-chunked chips.

The cushions tried to adjust for him, but he kept shifting, and one of the warping fields had burned out long ago, leaving a band a few centimeters wide that stayed stiff and straight as a motherboard and screwed up the whole system.

He had just finished attaching a new set of attenuators to a faulty motherboard when his cellular phone sprang to life.

Thanks to its motherboard of quantum chips, the machine would run faster than Cray supercomputers.

Laurent could see what Randy was referring to -- a mass of black cables that terminated in plugs which went into a large motherboard mounted on the wall.

He had just finished attaching a new set of attenuators to afaulty motherboard when his cellular phone sprang to life.

She had all the time she needed to search the panels below the dashboard, find the one whose ventilation slits suggested the presence of electronics, open it, identify the motherboard, and yank it out.

Then, hesitating only briefly, she put the motherboard back where it belonged.

He could, if that action became suddenly necessary, yank it free, find the motherboard, and remove the foreign chip.

But before he could open the panel, much less remove the motherboard or cleanse it of its parasitic infection, the Hawk pitched into a forward roll, like a diver from a board.