24 Apr
2003
24 Apr
'03
3:33 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Frank McConnell wrote:
Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I think there are PCI to ISA solutions available for the industrial
computer market. The real drawback is price, as they tend to be pricey,
just like the 16 bit ISA ones I mentioned.
-Toth
They are a box with a passive ISA back plane and
a pair of ISA cards
that are connected with a single round cable about as big around as
your thumb. The box itself is styled like an XT (down to the sloping
front).
The original poster was describing an intended use for these to enable
use of a speech-synthesis card on what I'm guessing is a more modern PC
with a sound card, as a backup for when the sound card or its drivers
fail. I guess what I'm wondering is, how is this supposed to work with
shiny new PCs that have no ISA slots, and is that what the poster is
really after? Probably completely off topic though.