What's your coolest ISA card?

From: Ken Seefried <ken_at_seefried.com>
Date: Wed Aug 8 09:51:02 2001

> 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
Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 09:51:02 BST