[Ham-Computers] Re ISA and PCI Slots

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

All I can find in the documentation I have available right now is that it is 
a ISA long card, as opposed to the short card.

I will keep looking -

Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Re ISA and PCI Slots


>I am measuring slots now.
>
> I have a motherboard with two types of ISA plugs.  One is about three and 
> a
> quarter inches long, the other about five and a half inches long.
>
> A PCI plug is also about three and a quarter inches long, the same as one
> type of ISA plug.
>
> A PCI card has a much higher electrical contact density, about three times
> that of an ISA.  If you have two to compare, you will be able to feel the
> difference.
>
> Trying to determine a type of card by bay length is near impossible as an
> ISA card can occupy space in the computer from about three inches up to
> eighteen inches for a full size card.  I do not know the physical
> limitations of PCI type cards.  As to which is which in what kind of
> computer as determined by age or operating system, I have a relatively new
> motherboard with several of each type of slot.  What you get is more
> determined by what the manufacturer put on it than anything else.
>
> Kurt
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