[Ham-Computers] PCI-ISA conversion?

[kd4e]

What is his application, please?

If practical what he may have to do is to run that
board in a second PC box slaved via a network or
other control protocol.

> 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!


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