Questions tagged [isa]
The Industry Standard Architecture bus, used by historic IBM PC compatibles, and extension cards for that bus.
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Troubleshooting Legacy Hardware and Software Issues on MS-DOS and Windows 3.11
I have an old PC with the following hardware components:
Motherboard: AMI TITAN II EISA rev.D
RAM: 48MB of 4 SIMM
CPU: 154C Pentium (tm)
BIOS: 711011596
HDD1: SCSI controller adapter through PCI (PCI)
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Using a Roland LAPC-I without a PC
This is inspired by the video Using an old 8 bit ISA sound card (Roland LAPC-I) without a PC.
I would like to find detailed instructions (for those unlearned in electronics), including a parts list, ...
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IDE interface board design review [closed]
Hope this is ok here. This seems to be the place with the real hardware experts. As some of you may recall, I've been trying to get a 44 pin IDE SSD module working on a retro IDE interface. The SSD ...
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On an ISA bus, is data read on the falling or rising edge of /IORD?
This should be an easy one but stick with me here. I think that page 46 of the ISA Bus Specification by Intel shows it's read on the rising edge. Intro to the ISA bus by Mark Sokos seems to agree on ...
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10 pin --> 26 pin VGA controller pinout and Card compatibility with American Megatrends Super Voyager VLB-III
I'm trying to test an old PC which controls a ABB Bomem FTIR Spectrometer (DA&). The internal PC for this instrument is an American Megatrends, Inc. Super Voyager VLB-III ISA Motherboard
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IDE SSD pulling down data bus
I obtained a quantity of these IDE 44 pin SSDs for use in my retro computers. At first I simply used an adapter to connect to the 40 pin IDE port, but it caused all sorts of weird problems e.g. the ...
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How to add ISA cards to the Tandy 1000 memory PLUS expansion board
I have a Tandy 1000A with a 25-1011 Memory PLUS Expansion Board (maxed out with 384kB). This board has a single 62-pin connector to add low-profile accessories like a mouse/clock card or a modem.
I ...
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How do I terminate an ISA bus correctly?
I am stuck by designing a 8 Slot 16 Bit ISA Backplane
Do I have to terminate an ISA bus?
My search results are:
No termination at all
Some homebrew projects use active termination for all signals
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What was the "32-bit" ISA bus (connector) extension for 80386 PCs?
I have a question which is similar to another question on this site:
When I was a child 386 PCs came up. When buying a PC, you could read in the technical data how many 8- and 16-bit ISA slots were ...
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How to build an ATA controller for the AT bus?
I would like to replace the ST502 MFM disk controller in my Schneider Target PC 7640 (about which I asked earlier) with an ATA (IDE) controller as it gets harder and harder to find replacement MFM ...
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What are these weird long ISA slots on this 386 board? (not VLB)
In this image, you can see, from the right, a 16-bit ISA slot (occupied by a controller card), an 8-bit ISA slot, four more 16-bit ISA slots, and two of these strange slots that look like a 16-bit ISA ...
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Connecting SCM Swapbox PCMCIA reader (ISA) to modern PC
Further to my previous question, I am wondering how best to connect an SCM Swapbox "SBI-D2P" (Classic X2) PCMCIA card reader to a modern PC (PCI/PCI Express/SATA/USB). I am aware there are USB PCMCIA ...
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AT system without −5 V
I have recently built a 80386 system. Lacking any AT PSU I connected a PicoPSU using an ATX→AT power adapter. Only card connected was a gpu (Trident TVGA 9000i). System performed BIOS checkup sequence ...
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How to use ISA card in modern PC
(Posted this on HW Rec but got no responses.)
Would like to use an ISA expansion card in a modern PC. There are
Expensive PCI - ISA adapters (but I cannot find any actually for sale now)
USB-ISA ...
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