20 Mar
2005
20 Mar
'05
12:31 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: ISA Connectors
bridgeboard)
I ended up just cutting the '16 bit' part away from the connector and
installed them in the Amiga (I just used a dremel tool to cut half way into
the connector and made a clean snap).
Since I was in there I did the lithium battery hack so my RTC works again.
Now to see about getting the cards installed and working.
>
> Can you still buy the 18x2 pin edgeboard that makes an 8 bit ISA slot
into a
16 bit one?
Isn't it just a standard 0/1" pitch edge connector? It shouldn't be hard
to get.
>
> I was toying with the idea of expanding my Amiga 2000 (with 286 > from 2x16 and 2x8bit to 4x16bit ISA slots and
installing a SCSI card,
video
> card, network card, and something else. The 2000
has the pinholes for
the
> connector so installing the edgeboard should not
be that big of a deal.
> Looking through my old 486 motherboards I noticed that they 16 bit slots
are
all 1 piece,
so desoldering one of them wont work.
IIRC, there's sigificant space between the 2 parts of the connector, so
it should be possible to cut your desoldered connector apart and use only
the '16 bit' part. Or can't you desolder the '8 bit' connectr from
the
Amiga and remplace the lot with one of the connectors from the old
motherboard?
-tony