ISA cards for free..

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Oct 25 16:57:25 2001

...stands to reason, since to PC had no 16-bit slots.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric J. Korpela" <korpela_at_ssl.berkeley.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: ISA cards for free..


> > You mean that nobody wants a current-loop capable card? Zog!. The other
> > feature of these cards (if it's the IBM card I think it is) is that it's
> > one of the few cards that will work in slot 8 of a real IBM PC/XT. It can
> > assert the right signal to enable the bus buffers on the motherboard.
>
> Actually after some point just about everything started being designed
> to be slot-8 compatible. I've got slot-8 compatible VGA cards....
>
> Eric
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 16:57:25 BST