First post, by feipoa
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Has anyone tried using an ISA to PCMCIA card adapter in their retro systems? The part number I have is ISAPC-00 and it is based on the Vadem VC-469. A photo of one can be found here: https://retrodepot.net/?p=415
And this appears to be a manual saying that this adapter was originally intended for Orinoco PCMCIA cards. https://mikrotik.com/documentation/manual_2.3 … lan/GSG_ISA.pdf
I happen to have an Orinoco Gold WiFi card, though my main hope was to use a PCMCIA-CF card adapter on the ISAPC-00. Has anyone had any success with the ISAPC-00 with any card in Windows 95? I installed the ISAPC-00 into my 486 and performed the software setup according to this: http://www.amphus.com/chips/singlechip/469_driver.asp
However, I get a yellow exclamation mark under the Device Manager, stating that I may not have the drivers fully installed. It doesn't show any hardware conflicts though. The PC Card icon in the Control Panel cannot find any card I insert into the ISAPC-00, so I'm assuming it isn't installed correctly.
On another computer (Cyrix MII), I tried the same setup approach, but using Windows 2000 SP4. I also get a yellow exclamation in the Device Manager, with message: "The device cannot start (Code 10)"
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