Theres several industrial motherboards out there with ISA slots. They don't come cheap though.

And typically lack features necessary to our purposes like DMA.

No DMA *and* a rip off??
*Grand Moff Tarkin voice* "She lied. She LIED to us!!"

Edit: aren't there any PCI slot to ISA options? I saw a few online for the cost of a decent motherboard. Would it be possible to utilize another PSU combined with a backplane and host card? Because you know, uhhhuhuhuh That would be cool! uhhhuhuhuhuh

jmrydholm wrote:

No DMA *and* a rip off??
*Grand Moff Tarkin voice* "She lied. She LIED to us!!"

Edit: aren't there any PCI slot to ISA options? I saw a few online for the cost of a decent motherboard. Would it be possible to utilize another PSU combined with a backplane and host card? Because you know, uhhhuhuhuh That would be cool! uhhhuhuhuhuh

Yeah for like $4000 dollars you can buy an ISA breakout box with a PCI controller card. You get something like 10 ISA slots in a box about the size of an IBM 5150, oh and it requires it's own power supply as well.

sliderider wrote:

jmrydholm wrote:

No DMA *and* a rip off??
*Grand Moff Tarkin voice* "She lied. She LIED to us!!"

Edit: aren't there any PCI slot to ISA options? I saw a few online for the cost of a decent motherboard. Would it be possible to utilize another PSU combined with a backplane and host card? Because you know, uhhhuhuhuh That would be cool! uhhhuhuhuhuh

Yeah for like $4000 dollars you can buy an ISA breakout box with a PCI controller card. You get something like 10 ISA slots in a box about the size of an IBM 5150, oh and it requires it's own power supply as well.

I've seen bridges for around 500-600, but I can't remember where and don't know about their usefulness.

The breakout box really is the way to go, but it's pricey... I couldn't ever justify it, that's for sure.

There is also an ISA-to-USB device somewhere out there, but naturally it's not a plug-and-play solution and you'd probably have to do a lot of coding to get it to do anything practical.

Remember the P4 board with a vacuum tube?

I think I've seen that ISA-to-USB device before too. The vendor stated that they have absolutely *no software* to control it and that the end-user would have to code their own solution. Sounds like a true geek's challenge! Wish I could code...I'd contribute.

The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series:
http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009/MB800V.html

The MB800H as I and several others use also have an AGP 4X slot.

I've not seen anything with Pentium-M, Core2/Core2Quad cpu options that has a fully working ISA subsystem.

megatron-uk wrote:

The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series: http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009 […]
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The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series:
http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009/MB800V.html

The MB800H as I and several others use also have an AGP 4X slot.

I've not seen anything with Pentium-M, Core2/Core2Quad cpu options that has a fully working ISA subsystem.

Intel 845 chipset? Doesn't that require RDRAM? Yuck.

sliderider wrote:

megatron-uk wrote:

The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series: http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009 […]
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The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series:
http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009/MB800V.html

The MB800H as I and several others use also have an AGP 4X slot.

I've not seen anything with Pentium-M, Core2/Core2Quad cpu options that has a fully working ISA subsystem.

Intel 845 chipset? Doesn't that require RDRAM? Yuck.

That's the 850. And not quite yuck. It held the memory bandwidth performance crown until granite bay with dual channel DDR. Admittedly, the ram cost a fortune.

So if I wear a Devo suit and start playing subliminal industrial trance at the ebay sellers, will the market value lower? 🤣

That is a nice motherboard though, I'd like to put it on the game grid and see what it's made of. 😁 *MCP voice*

jmrydholm wrote:

I think I've seen that ISA-to-USB device before too. The vendor stated that they have absolutely *no software* to control it and that the end-user would have to code their own solution. Sounds like a true geek's challenge! Wish I could code...I'd contribute.

I also think so.

sliderider wrote:

megatron-uk wrote:

The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series: http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009 […]
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The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series:
http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009/MB800V.html

The MB800H as I and several others use also have an AGP 4X slot.

I've not seen anything with Pentium-M, Core2/Core2Quad cpu options that has a fully working ISA subsystem.

Intel 845 chipset? Doesn't that require RDRAM? Yuck.

No. It's DDR.

jmrydholm wrote:

I think I've seen that ISA-to-USB device before too. The vendor stated that they have absolutely *no software* to control it and that the end-user would have to code their own solution. Sounds like a true geek's challenge! Wish I could code...I'd contribute.

I would buy it. price does not matter 😀