I worked for a place that had the contract with City of Manassas, and all they bought were PS/2 systems so I had a bit of dealing with MCA. (IBM used to have a plant in Manassas, which is probably why they used PS/2 systems).
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I worked for a place that had the contract with City of Manassas, and all they bought were PS/2 systems so I had a bit of dealing with MCA. (IBM used to have a plant in Manassas, which is probably why they used PS/2 systems).
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I definitely had a Creative quad speed at one point, that used the proprietary interface, but, IIRC, that card was just ISA.
SCSI was definitely one of the primary applications of EISA, but for some reason I'm thinking there was a combo card that also had audio, but maybe I'm on glue, lol.
These are some 50ns EDO Registered ECC DIMMs I bought real cheap a few years ago, I've still never gotten around to testing them for what I bought them for. I have a Pentium II 333mhz system with a 440LX board, that I want to see if I can get to 768MBs, it will not boot with 256MB SDRAM modules installed but the 440LX is only supposed to support up to 128MB per module when using SDRAM but can apparently do 256MB per module when using registed EDO so I thought for as little as I paid at the time I'd see.
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Just going by the Wiki, apparently the HP Vectra 486 was EISA as was the Compaq DeskPro 486. We are old, lol.
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Registered ECC EDO! I have some EDO kicking around (as well as some fast page) but nothing that fancy!
At one point they did start putting IDE on sound cards and they even sold ISA cards with one IDE interface on them just for hooking up a CD-ROM drive because hooking an ATAPI device on the same channel as the HDD I don't think was ever really recommended.
This is true
PCI was definitely the end of EISA. Microchannel, too.
Early 1980s Prime Super Mini, running Primos, Pick environment with Prime Information 4GL. Powerful business computers that fell victim to the Personal Computer... InfoBasic for the win, baby! A step past COBOL and predecessor to Visual Basic, the language that changed business and changed the world!
I coded my 1st recursive functions for MRP on one of these.
I coded my 1st recursive functions for MRP on one of these.
They also made ATAPI tape drives. I have one somewhere. Travan TR-1, holds 400mb per tape or something like that.
Some ISA NICs I have lying around, I have 3x Compaq branded Intel Ether Express 16 cards with AUI and TP connections, and a new in package Kingston NE2000 compatible (probably a realtek chip) with just the TP connection that someone found renovating their house and gave to me. I think I have a few 3com cards that may have all three connections on them in some systems I have stored away and a few generic Realtek NE clones with TP and BNC connections.
I love the one that says "PnP" on it, PnP on ISA cards never worked well and just created extra steps because you had to dig out the software and set it to manual mode and define your resources anyways.
I was visiting my parents this weekend and thought about grabbing my SGI Octane and the Sun SPARC pizza box I have. I thought doing so might be RISCy, though…
I will gladly provide a few photos of things I have here and now, though, over the next few days. Funny enough, just last week I set up a beige G3 Minitower in my office at work, but this one is no special ordinary G3 minitower…
I will gladly provide a few photos of things I have here and now, though, over the next few days. Funny enough, just last week I set up a beige G3 Minitower in my office at work, but this one is no special ordinary G3 minitower…
Now is finally the stuff they promised then!
I'm sure you could have put it up and someone would have came and got it, unless it was mostly modems, nobody wants those. But pretty much anything EISA is pretty rare these days and heavily sought after.
Allegedly my new to me laptop computer is a "relic" from 2013.
Works fine, so dunno.
Works fine, so dunno.
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Yeah, and you could get an SB16 with SCSI too.
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Remember HD120, ZIP and JAZZ? Various interfaces available. I think I still had an ATAPI ZIP drive here somewhere (as well as an external parallel one).
I have a T60 with a 128MB X1400 that I use to play older games that are best played in 4:3, it's hard to believe how long ago 2006 really was now.
