Probably the two most interesting ISA cards I own are
an Iterated
Systems fractal compression accelerator,
Wow. Dr. Micheal Barnsley (the guy who came up with the technology that
later became Iterated Systems) was my prof at GaTech when I took what I
think was the first IFS class ever taught. I worked in his lab for a while.
He started Iterated after I left.
The other i860 board I wanted was the Hauppauge
486 + i860 motherboard.
Oh, yeah. I lusted after this one at the time, right up until we started
looking at how, um, baroque the i860 really was. Did anyone ever actually
use one of these?
A company called Opus made a number of ISA cards with interesting
coprocessors. I used to have an Opus 32000 ISA card, a National Semi 32016
coprocessor. It unfortunately got tossed out by a careless girlfriend a
decade ago (along with my unbuilt PC532 kit...sigh). I'm pretty sure that
Opus continued this line up to the ns32332; I don't know if they ever made
one out of the ns32532.
I recall someone made an ISA board with a Fairchild Clipper on it, but the
deatils have faded away.
Ken