ISA on a Laptop - How to

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Hi!!

My question is very... complicated to solve.

I want to connect a ISA board to my Laptop and i've searched in internet for
adaptors... i found but they are really expensive (more than $1.000)...

My laptop is a Toshiba 2450, and i send a mail to Toshiba asking if there
are any Docking Station with ISA expansion and they told me that they don't
have anything.
I saw some docking Station very cool, like HP OmniBook 800 CT Docking
Station, with one ISA slot! Very cool and it wold be perfect to me...

My question:
What can I do to use an ISA board on my Laptop?? Is there any universal
Docking Station?
How does a Laptop connects to a Docking Station? It uses a special port or
is a normal port like LPT? If it is a LPT port can i connect any Docking
Station to my Laptop... in this case the HP Docking Station wold be nice!!

Thanks for all... and sorry for my bad english!!
 
Hi!!

My question is very... complicated to solve.

I want to connect a ISA board to my Laptop and i've searched in internet for
adaptors... i found but they are really expensive (more than $1.000)...

My laptop is a Toshiba 2450, and i send a mail to Toshiba asking if there
are any Docking Station with ISA expansion and they told me that they don't
have anything.
I saw some docking Station very cool, like HP OmniBook 800 CT Docking
Station, with one ISA slot! Very cool and it wold be perfect to me...

My question:
What can I do to use an ISA board on my Laptop?? Is there any universal
Docking Station?
How does a Laptop connects to a Docking Station? It uses a special port or
is a normal port like LPT? If it is a LPT port can i connect any Docking
Station to my Laptop... in this case the HP Docking Station wold be nice!!

Thanks for all... and sorry for my bad english!!
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There is no easy way to do what you want. There is no such thing as a
"universal docking station" that would have what you want. First, laptops
are very proprietary on expansion ports, etc.. Second, manufacturers are
dropping ISA support except for specialized markets.

What ISA card do you have that you need to plug into a laptop and can't get
in a more laptop friendly format?

JT
 
Hi,
It's a Martin LightJockey DJ.
I use it to control lights and robotic on shows...

The price of a ney one (USB, PCI, PCMCIA) e more than $1.500...
I've been using a Desktop for about 4 years. But now, and because i bought a
new laptop, i want to make it more portable because the shows aren't on the
same place... In summer i go almost every day to a diferent place and
portability wold be very nice.

Thanks!!
 
overcrash said:
Hi,
It's a Martin LightJockey DJ.
I use it to control lights and robotic on shows...

The price of a ney one (USB, PCI, PCMCIA) e more than $1.500...
I've been using a Desktop for about 4 years. But now, and because i bought a
new laptop, i want to make it more portable because the shows aren't on the
same place... In summer i go almost every day to a diferent place and
portability wold be very nice.

Thanks!!
Click to expand...
<top-posting fixed> :p
I suspect that, IMHO, just buying a new one will be less troublesome in
the long run. If you get USB then you can swap it between computers far
more freely too. My .02c

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overcrash said:
Hi,
It's a Martin LightJockey DJ.
I use it to control lights and robotic on shows...

The price of a ney one (USB, PCI, PCMCIA) e more than $1.500...
I've been using a Desktop for about 4 years. But now, and because i bought a
new laptop, i want to make it more portable because the shows aren't on the
same place... In summer i go almost every day to a diferent place and
portability wold be very nice.
Click to expand...

What kind of interface does it have on the card? It might be something you
can recreate cheaper than buying new.

I'd probably try and find the smallest mainboard/case combo I could and
dedicate it to one purpose.
 
Hi!!

My question is very... complicated to solve.

I want to connect a ISA board to my Laptop and i've searched in internet for
adaptors... i found but they are really expensive (more than $1.000)...

My laptop is a Toshiba 2450, and i send a mail to Toshiba asking if there
are any Docking Station with ISA expansion and they told me that they don't
have anything.
I saw some docking Station very cool, like HP OmniBook 800 CT Docking
Station, with one ISA slot! Very cool and it wold be perfect to me...

My question:
What can I do to use an ISA board on my Laptop?? Is there any universal
Docking Station?
How does a Laptop connects to a Docking Station? It uses a special port or
is a normal port like LPT? If it is a LPT port can i connect any Docking
Station to my Laptop... in this case the HP Docking Station wold be nice!!

Thanks for all... and sorry for my bad english!!
Click to expand...

http://www.arstech.com/usb2isa.htm
 
Laptops that can be docked have receptors that might vary according to make
but they are made to exactly fit the male conncectors of the docking
station. There was a site that I saw that sold converter kits for turning a
PCI slot into an ISA slot but you have to wire the circuits yourself. These
were not extremely expensive but it seems you must know a lot about
electronic circuits to do it.
 
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