5 Jun
2003
5 Jun
'03
9:59 p.m.
At 07:05 PM 6/4/03 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
A quick look on www.pricegrabber.com turned up 38 current motherboards with
isa slots.
I don't
want to rain on your parade, but just a suggestion - a motherboard
with an ISA slot is now almost impossible to find, new of course. And
a serial port is a bit slow.
THis is a major problem, I am told. There are lots of custom ISA cards
(varios special-purpose interfaces, measurement systems, etc) that never
had PCI equivalents. There's nothing to plug them into when the old
ISA-capable motherboards die. And of course (as I've moaned about several
times), service docs and spares for PC motherboards are somewhat rarer
than PERQ T4s...
-tony