Hi gang,

A DEC 486 board turned up, LPX style one slot for a riser, and beside it, an ISA slot.... or is it? Says it's a personality slot... But ISA card fits in it, down to lining up with the plane of the back panel shown by the rest of the ports.

Mostly for older DEC I am seeing only SCSI adapters as personality modules.... IDK if that means it was to make the system IDE or SCSI or what, and whether it takes a normal ISA one or needs special sauce.

I only have super dim flickers of memory about this board. I remember a super awkward SCSI card that seemed almost like it wanted to work, but didn't, but that was what half the SCSI stuff I found was like back then, either broke or misconfigured, info was hard to dig up. I don't know if that came with this or not.

Anyway, anyone have any experience with these boards and can tell me it's safe to plug ISA into it or not? Or safe but pointless because it's got half the IRQs missing or something?

thanks...