First post, by seleryba
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ISA modems.
I have a feeling that there may be people with lots of them because of buying lots of stuff/scrap/complete PCs for a few parts etc.
I know - there were multiple topics which tried to answer "how can I use them nowadays".
Easy solutions are:
- use as intended - connect to existing phone line and then to the Web (boring, expensive and in the most cases impossible)
- use as intended but build your own ISP as a bridge to the modern broadband (nice excercise)
- modem-to-modem connection to transfer data (personally, I didn't tested it yet)
What I love in the retro PC community is the "hack it" approach.
- Network cards with XT-IDE roms acting as a second, better BIOS
- Music cards via LPT and special drivers to push the data there to unlock the sound capabilities on the old laptops
- Software emulators, like SBEMU to emulate SB on AC97
Small discussion starter from me: I wonder if it would be possible to play sound with ISA modems and some fancy custom TSR/drivers?
If you have any ideas/examples/proof of concepts how to use the "unnecessary" cards in a clever way - share and inspire!