Maybe off topic but I know the nerds here can help...
(And I mean that as a compliment!)
I happen to get an isa digital i/o card used for electronic experiments in trade.
I have an I believe a 600mhz motherboard/processor but I was wondering whats the fasest cpu/motherboard around with at least 2 or 3 isa slots and if anyone has any, I have some amiga goodies to trade for such a motherboard/processor ram combo...
This is intended for a home automation project that has speech recognition, or will have speech recog, so I need the fastest cpu/board I can get that has isa slots.
Any ideas guys? I have some aminet cd-roms, an amiga maniac amiga to svideo adapter, an amiga 500ps, and some other amiga items I will gladly trade for an appropriate pc motherboard/processor/ram combo... I believe this type of board should be AT power supplied if possible.
Thanks guys!
Steven
Speed of the cpu and ram will have little or no impact on ISA slots...
The ISA bus is limited to 16 or 20mzh speeds.
Has a max ram config of 16mb (adress space)
Most periferals are 8 or 16bits... some few are 32bits...
Only impact the cpu will be with the managing software...
The pentium III platform is the last (if i am correct) that still had ISA slots on motherboards... if you are lucky you can find PIII boards, cpus and computers on ebay.
I recomend trying to trace down the Tulatin 1400 PIII cpu...
It is flying fast. AND some serverboards have ISA slots and dual cpu capability. And even 4 gig ram configs... (PC 133 DIMMs)
VIA chipsets are prefered. as they are truly 133mhz FSB..
Intel chipsets works just fine. but has severe limitations.
(440BX 133 is the best, and has a server derivative...)
If you manage to track it down, there are single board computers with backplanes that has lots more ISA slots...
But they are rare and expensive...
They also come in dual PIII (with tulatin support) and a maximum of 4 gig ram.... though, even rarer...
If you find such equipment. i think it is the best possible for any ISA application you may desire...
Links:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RACKSERVER-1U-DUAL-1-266-GHz-1GB-TYAN-TIGER-200T-SERVER-/280459737307?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item414cb3f8dbhttp://www.ibasetechnology.net/news96.htmlhttp://www.ibasetechnology.net/ib745.html
