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Fastest pc motherboard with isa slots?
« on: March 04, 2012, 07:30:39 PM »
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
 

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Re: Fastest pc motherboard with isa slots?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2012, 07:19:01 AM »
I have two of these isa cards that can be jumpered for different addresses, so I'm looking for a board with two isa slots.

Yes the speed of the processor won't matter to isa operations, but it will matter when I bog the system down with the speech recognition software. I can't have a system with the cpu at 90% just from speech recog software.

Tested with a 200mhz pentium 2 and thats what it was like. I'll run more tests with the 600mhz board I have here when I get a chance. I was hoping to get a 1ghz range pc for this project with 2 isa slots.

I'm not sure if the pci/isa converter boards will work with these isa cards. They write to specific addresses to turn the lines on/off in c or qbasic.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

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Re: Fastest pc motherboard with isa slots?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2012, 10:51:54 AM »
Wow those are awesome thanks!

I guess I could use any pc with those...

Steven
 

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Re: Fastest pc motherboard with isa slots?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2012, 07:16:29 PM »
Thanks those are nice priced but...

I'd prefer to just get a board and processor/ram together.
 

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Re: Fastest pc motherboard with isa slots?
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2012, 03:24:24 AM »
Looks like there are many more things available than I thought. I'm going to keep checking ebay for any board/proc/ram combo thats around 1ghz, or I may just use this 600mhz celleron. Haven't gotten around to testing that yet...

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Re: Fastest pc motherboard with isa slots?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2012, 03:36:44 AM »
Iggy, can you just drop those processors in any compattible motherboard? I never did that I thought you had to change more than that or deal with jumpers and such, just figured someone would have a board/proc/ram combo...

Steven