isa card in new pc

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I've got a cadet radio based on an isa card

Is there any way to ply this in new pc ( one with pci,usb, etc0


Fore example is there a usb->> isa connector that would let you play
old isa cards
 
I've got a cadet radio based on an isa card

Is there any way to ply this in new pc ( one with pci,usb, etc0


Fore example is there a usb->> isa connector that would let you play
old isa cards
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Have never seen any. You could theoriticaly make a PCI to ISA adapter, but
haven't seen any. USB is too different from ISA to make it practical
except as an exercise in engineering.

JT
 
I think some motherboards (using P4s, no less!) are offered by SuperMicro
with an ISA slot or two...
 
Here are some mobos with ISA slots;
The Soyo 'P4I 845PE ISA' motherboard, based on the i845PE
chipset supports 400 and 533MHZ FSB Pentium 4 processors.
3 ISA slots, 4 PCI slots, 1 AGP slot
Onboard video, sound, Ethernet and USB 2.0.
http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=194
Here's a supermicro one;
http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/875/P4SCA.htm
Further, there seem to be several versions of the
Gigabyte GA-7ZX that have one ISA slot. The
-7ZXC is one of them. Unknow if this is current production.
 
I think some motherboards (using P4s, no less!) are offered by SuperMicro
with an ISA slot or two...
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Soyo also makes one. Haven't seen any on the AMD side for a while

JT
 
There's alot of motherboards supporting ISA-cards, but I've never ever seen
any adapter. I really doubt there is.

- JM
 
| There's alot of motherboards supporting ISA-cards, but I've never
| ever seen any adapter. I really doubt there is.
|
| - JM
|
| "JT" <datacare@www> skrev i meddelandet
| || On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:10:05 -0500, "George" <[email protected]>
|| wrote:
||
||| I think some motherboards (using P4s, no less!) are offered by
||| SuperMicro with an ISA slot or two...
|||
|| Soyo also makes one. Haven't seen any on the AMD side for a while
||
To be honest, there aren't many ISA cards made any more for the mainstream
market - though you'll still find some expensive 'scientific development'
ones if you look in the right catalogues.
The ISA bus runs slower than the PCI bus and doesn't support the
plug-and-play features of auto-assigning interrupts and I/O addresses like
PCI uses.
Modern systems are very much faster than when ISA cards were commonplace,
and they might easily become the weak link in the performance chain.
Basically, the PC has evolved and we've moved on.
Market forces seem to suggest that the average non-technical joe would
rather his sound, graphics, network and SCSI cards can auto-configure thier
interrupts and I/O addresses than each one having to have little jumpers set
on them. Thus said, we did go through a sort of 'transitional period' where
some ISA cards could have their interrupt and I/O address settings
configured via software - most often a small utility run in the startup
files.
Up till recently, I used to use Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 and GA-7IXEH m/boards -
which do allow for an ISA card if you want one. Now I use GA-7VAXP and
GA-7VRXP m.boards which have no ISA slot. These are all AMD m/boards.
Kevin.
 
Modern systems are very much faster than when ISA cards were
commonplace,
and they might easily become the weak link in the performance chain.
Basically, the PC has evolved and we've moved on.
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That is part of the problem sometimes. I work at a plant that has a lot of
older equipment along with some of the latest out. The new laptops will not
'talk' with the old equipment. Some of the equipment requires a slow serial
port. Actually I think the timming is done in software and the loop times
out on the faster computer. Some equipment in the labs require a serial
port and we get the USB port that is not compatiable. It is hard to justify
changing out half a million dollars of old equipment just because of a $
2000 laptop or computer. The company has no proble switching over 300
computers every 3 or so years, but it is too costly to switch the process
equipment.
 
|| Modern systems are very much faster than when ISA cards were
|| commonplace, and they might easily become the weak link in the
|| performance chain. Basically, the PC has evolved and we've moved on.
|
| That is part of the problem sometimes. I work at a plant that has a
| lot of older equipment along with some of the latest out. The new
| laptops will not 'talk' with the old equipment. Some of the
| equipment requires a slow serial port. Actually I think the timming
| is done in software and the loop times out on the faster computer.
| Some equipment in the labs require a serial port and we get the USB
| port that is not compatiable. It is hard to justify changing out half
| a million dollars of old equipment just because of a $ 2000 laptop or
| computer. The company has no proble switching over 300 computers
| every 3 or so years, but it is too costly to switch the process
| equipment.

This shouldn't be an insurmountable problem !
There are USB-to-Serial adapters available for a reasonable price, and you
can also get PCI cards which give serial ports.
With a serial port, you can probably get around the timing problem by
setting the baud rate to something slower in the serial port driver. If not,
then part of the software might require a mod to make the tming loop last
longer.
Kevin.
 
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