20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
1:08 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 20 Oct 2007 at 12:32, Doc Shipley wrote:
Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were talkng about "an old [cheap]
PC with some ISA slots and some ISA prototype boards". :)
I have a bunch of small-form-factor boards, from EBX to mini-ITX to
ISA-bus and PICMG industrial SBC. Only the industrial ISA and PICMG
systems have ISA peripheral slots, and they're mostly neither cheap nor
small. I looked for over a year before I found an ISA backplane with
<10 slots.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Oh, golly the casemodders have been fooling around with small-
footprint mobos for years. An old PC with some ISA slots (free, usually) and
a few ISA prototype
boards (about $20 or so the each) would seem to satisfy the basic
need pretty handily, wouldn't it? Easy to program, free tools, etc.
Or am I missing something important here?
"small"? :) And there's always PC104, no? Basically ISA--and
a variety of
processors (yes, even x86) are available with that bus, as well as
prototyping cards.
Well, yeah. Ergo the 386 SBC, which has PC104 as one of its
attractions. That's likely to be its network connection.
Doc