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Article #82034Re: Which sound card for a legacy-only DOS computer?
From: Michael
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:24
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:24
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Io wrote: > (snip) > I wonder if removing the ISA slots from motherboards was partially to drive > new hardware purchases. There seems to be a flood of perfectly good > second-hand ISA devices still around. Sure it was. They didn't delete ISA slots, retain the mb dimensions, and fill the freed up real estate with PCI slots. They shrank the mb and retained the (too few) number of slots (PCI, of course). Yeah, there is a flood of functional ISA devices to be had. Pretty cheap. Free, when I pull 'em outta the trash. Major label modems, sound and video cards. The monitor I'm looking at right now is controlled by a free Diamond Viper PCI. Also a flood of "old" computers (mostly 133 MHz P54C's around here) with both ISA and PCI slots. Last month I rescued 5 of these of a computer shop's trash, 2 full-size towers and 2 mini-towers with AOpen mb's and 1995 AMI BIOS, and 1 mini-tower with 1998 Phoenix BIOS. Yesterday I put a surplus 2.5 GB into one of the full tower boxes, gave it some EDO RAM, and installed an OS. Lovely email machine.
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