[Ham-Computers] PCI-ISA conversion?

[Dale Miller]

Your Friend is better off either getting a motherboard that has the ISA 
slot, which will be hard to find and will cost more than a board with 
just PCI.
The other option is to replace the card in question to a PCI card.
I had to do this back when I had a ISA slot card for a flat bed scanner, 
and you needed the card to power the scanner.
So I had to find a new scanner, which was the cheaper option at the 
time, and probably still is.
Hope this helps.



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Philip Atchley wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm making this inquiry on behalf of a third party who has a 'VERY' 
> expensive ISA card that he would like to run on a modern computer with 
> only PCI, USB (and serial/Parallel) ports.  He asked me to find out if 
> it's feasible to make an interface to use said card on the modern 
> machine.  I suspect that the difference in PCI/ISA bus speeds etc 
> would make this a rather formidable task, especially for one such as I 
> who is NOT a digital engineer and who can "almost" find his way 
> through an OR gate (My specialties are RF and Audio analog stuff)  ;-) 
> Anyway, I did do a Google on PCI-ISA conversion and turned up a couple 
> companies who market such things.  Only one of them listed the price, 
> and at $590.00 a pop they're not even in the running!
>
> ANY IDEAS?
>
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