Alan,
Thanks for the info. In my opinion, creating a new computer to support
obsolete technology is analogous to the tail wagging the dog. Since the
biggest pain in the a.. of getting a new computer is reinstalling all the
software and setting the preferences as before, I want it to last for a
good number of years. The only way to do that is buying state of the
art, and upgrading various compnents along the way.
These will, unfortunately, include the ISA components, which are
Byterunner 4 COM port board and the Hal P-38 (and 4 32MB SIMMs).
73 Barry
On 11 Jun 2002 Alan Ames wrote:
> Jim/Barry-
>
> When my computer died last year, I bought a server
> motherboard but had the same problem; as I couldn't
> get my DVK, P38, and AWE32 sound board in the new
> motherboard.
> Eventually I found a motherboard with 6 ISA slots
> running a PIII at 1GHz+. But it's a bit expensive.
> It's an industrial computer motherboard so it might
> tend to outlast some of the discount computers
> advertised in your local newspapers. I have a 800Mhz
> version, and having a build in VGA frees up another
> PCI slot.
>
> http://www.itox.com/pages/products/mothers/itoxmb/Itox3Spec.cfm
>
> -Alan, N2ALE/6
>
>
> --- Jim Johnson <jim@kc4hw.net> wrote:
> > Barry,
> >
> > If you are building your own, you can still find
> > main boards with the one
> > or two ISA slots but you have to look for them!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11 Jun 02, at 11:45, Barry wrote:
> >
> > > My second station computer died, so I'm planning
> > to replace it. As all the
> > > new systems now are PCI only, I'm looking for
> > recommendations for a 4 COM
> > > port PCI card that shares 1 IRQ
> >
> >
> > Jim Johnson, Melbourne, Florida
> > jim@kc4hw.net - http://www.kc4hw.net
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