I suspect that keeping an original 5160 or 5170
running will be a lot
easier than keeping such a board running.
Probably, but it does not run altium designer, and when I need to do a
BGA design using very high-speed FPGAs, a 5160/5170 does not help me much.
I wasn;'t aware that application required the use of a special-purpose
ISA board...
Point being, of course, that nobody stops you from having a machine to
run your CAD tools and a separate machine to use the ISA cards.
My original question related to som very non-standard ISA boards that
have (AFAIK) not even PCI versions, let alone an equivaletn you could
conencto a USB port or similar.
-tony