What's your coolest ISA card?( was Re: IBM 5150 PC)

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Aug 7 14:22:14 2001

    I have an ISA card made by HP that is called a "BASIC langauage
processor card" or more commonly referred to as a "Viper" card. The card
contains RAM, BASIC in ROM (optional), a 68000 CPU and a GPIB port. When
you run the driver program on the PC, the card takes over the system and it
behaves exactly like a HP 9836! Including the ability to operate HP-IB
devices and use HP-IB disk drives, printers, plotters, etc. Most of the
viper cards used a disk based language but you could get BASIC and Pascal
in ROM form. I've only seen a few of these cards and they all ran BASIC but
I'm told that you could get HPL, BASIC and Pascal. I've also been told
that there was a "hyper-viper" card that used a 68010 or 68020 but I've
never talked to anyone that's seen one.

   Joe

At 10:54 AM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote:

>I have a 16 bit ISA card that is a Motorola 68020 with 68881 (or is it the
>68882?). Anyway the card
>is a complete single board computer that plugs into your AT system. It is made
>by a company called
>DSI and came with C and FORTRAN, I believe.
>
>I actually collect ISA cards that have interesting processors on them (i.e.
>80186, 68000, 68020, 386
>486, etc.)
>
>Eric
Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 14:22:14 BST