mobo

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

mobo
 /moh'bo/

   Written and (rarely) spoken contraction of "motherboard"

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

motherboard
mobo
system board

   <hardware> (mobo) The main {printed circuit board} in an
   electronic device, particularly a computer, which may contain
   sockets that accept additional boards ("daughter-boards").

   In a {personal computer}, the motherboard contains the {bus},
   the {microprocessor}, and {integrated circuits} used for
   controlling any built-in {peripherals} such as the {keyboard},
   text and graphics display, {serial ports} and {parallel
   ports}, {joystick}, and {mouse} {interfaces}.

   (2000-08-10)