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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