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

From: Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com>
Date: Tue Aug 7 15:00:10 2001

joe wrote:

> 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.
>

Real cool! I'll keep my eyes open for that one...

Eric


>
> 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
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