14 Sep
1998
14 Sep
'98
6:46 a.m.
Jason,
I have a card like that too. There's no same on it or the manual but
the description is the same. It even has the Cirrus Logic video Bios. It
has nine sets of jumpers near the center of the board and a single pair
toward one end. The floppy and IDE connectors are mounted vertically near
the center of the board. Let me know if you want to compare them and see if
they're the same. I have the manuals and software for mine.
Joe
At 12:45 PM 9/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
I had a multi-I/o card that did 2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game, SuperVGA
(Cirrus Logic 5424 I think), IDE and floppy all on one card. But it was a
VLB card. I used it in my 486SLC I had at the time. I don't remember who
made it. It was "generic" -- no name printed on the card, and all of the
large number of jumpers where labelled "JPx" so it was quite difficult to
reconfigure without the manual.
-jrs
At 11:18 AM 9/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
I'm looking for a slight variation of a card I
have in an old PC/XT,
one card with:
- video (monochrome text only is OK, VGA at best)
- floppy disk controller (3.5in, 1.44MB is necessary)
- serial/parallel I/O (optional, one serial port would be nice)
- and (optionally) a hard drive controller (MFM is OK, IDE better)
With such a card I can construct a minimal, full system on an old
386sx I have using only one expansion slot, which is a necessity.
The card I have is an 8-bit ISA card, and that or a 16-bit ISA card
would be OK. The card I have only does up to 5.25in, 720KB floppies,
and that's why I can't steal it from my XT.
Was such a card ever made? (It's not too much of a step beyond what
I have.) Does anyone have one around? Does someone still make such
a card?
Thanks,
Dave
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