On 19-Jun-97, A.R. Duell wrote:
>IIRC, that expansion bus was pin-pin compatible with a stadard 8-bit ISA
>connector. It should be possible to kludge up an adapter cable (keep it as
>short as possible) to use a normal PC serial card in the EX.
Actually, it should be, as I recall a couple companies doing just that so
that they could mount small hard disk controllers in the EX/HX expansion area,
though the problem then is getting the card to fit. There was even one
vendor, called Howard Medical, I believe, that managed to squeeze a hard disk
into the 2nd floppy bay.
Jeff jeffh_at_unix.aardvarkol.com
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Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 09:16:04 BST