Comments on: Interfacing the ISA bus

By: Abhishek Dutta

Abhishek Dutta — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:52:37 +0000

The original article is available at:

http://abhishekdutta.org/interfacing-with-the-isa-bus/

By: Metal WOlf

Metal WOlf — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:50:09 +0000

I have a lot of computers with isa slots, if anyone needs some contact me at metalwolf@bluebottle.com

By: abhishek dutta

abhishek dutta — Mon, 29 May 2006 07:22:53 +0000

IMPORTANT !!!

URL of this article has changed to

http://www.myjavaserver.com/~thelinuxmaniac/isa

TLM

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:12:21 +0000

This company http://www.arstech.com/cgi-bin/ccp51/cp-app.cgi builds isa to usb adaptors that might be useful in these projects.

By: bogdanm

bogdanm — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:40:59 +0000

I don’t want to be the party breaker here, but you can also do PCI, albeit not remotely as easy as this:

http://elm-chan.org/works/pci/report_e.html

By: paul h

paul h — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:44:18 +0000

PC104 is electrically similar (identical?) to ISA with a different form factor. Lots of cards for experimenting, breaking out lines, etc.

By: fucter

fucter — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:54:28 +0000

you can use the clapper to turn off the lights in your room

By: mycroes

mycroes — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:07:51 +0000

Just for those of you who were wondering…

AthlonXP-2700 michael # lspci | grep -i isa
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
AthlonXP-2700 michael #

No isa slots there though, just the bridge, but I think there must be a way to use it…

By: calvin

calvin — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:45:29 +0000

I couldn’t find a contact email address, so Ill just put this here. I got a “clapper” for my birthday, the one that turns off your appliances if you clap twice. I was wondering if anyone has heard of any hacks for one of these things, I’m sure theres a lot of fun stuff you could do with it.

By: Jason spence

Jason spence — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:29:34 +0000

Or you could just use a programmable address logic chip so you don’t have to mess around with so many logic ICs :)

By: dioxide

dioxide — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:01:04 +0000

isa was the last true hobby bus. usb is getting there though. ftdi is offering usb modules you can add to your projects, with drivers for most any os. very easy to use.

i wonder if i could make myself an isa to usb converter with an external chassis..

By: Rossitron

Rossitron — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:07:41 +0000

liam:
My guess would be no, seeing as you’d need to write a driver for labview to interface with it.

I would look into the many low cost (around $100 USD) USB DAQ devices. Just google for ‘usb daq’.
Or if you really have to do it on the cheap, try this thing:
http://www.hobbyengineering.com/H1516.html

By: eric

eric — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:08:52 +0000

Soyo and Advantech built pentium 4 computers with ISA slots. There is an ISA bridge chip that they use to add it now that the chipsets don’t have the isa bridge built in any more.

The Soyo mobo is SY-P4I845PE/GVISA Plus

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:56:32 +0000

Very nice.

This might be a silly question, but would this be useful for applications such as LabView? I think a lot of people working at my department (a university physics dept.) might find this very useful.

By: hellbent

hellbent — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:43:02 +0000

my family pc, a windows 2k machine now, has an isa slot.