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downthread there's a USB-ISA adapter (lets you use ISA boards via a USB port) and that was so odd I chipped in actual money to see it happen
by joshu 7y ago
downthread there's a USB-ISA adapter (lets you use ISA boards via a USB port) and that was so odd I chipped in actual money to see it happen
- raverbashing 7y agoThis is the really cursed one And of course you'll still have to fiddle with the IRQs on the boards you plug and have a USB to ISA bridge(?) driver and I can't imagine how to make an ISA driver talk to a virtual bus over USB Suffice to say if it was the other way around I think ISA wasn't fast enough for USB 2.0 so at least there's that
- rasz 7y agoThe one ISA-on-USB I saw some years ago came with SDK and you had to write your custom software for it, no transparent automagic isa mapping on PC.
- avian 7y agoI have a box of custom ISA data acquisition boards sitting around somewhere, mostly because I never came around to throwing them out. I actually wrote a Linux driver for them some lifetimes ago. This USB thing might actually make them useful again. I never thought an adapter like this might exist.
- rasz 7y agoAncient (~2000) Orinoco USB dongles https://wiki.debian.org/orinoco_usb https://wiki.debian.org/orinoco_usb , Proxim/Lucent/Agere Prism chipset = original Apple pcmcia AirPort Card = first wifi 802.11b cards ever, shipped in USB-2-PCMCIA cradle build using Cypress EZ-USB bridge chip https://www.cypress.com/products/ez-usb-fx1 https://www.cypress.com/products/ez-usb-fx1 . PCMCIA is ~16bit ISA