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First post, by ahendricks18

Posted on 2014-11-09, 00:57

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Hey guys what's up? I bought that isa sound card and you told me it wouldn't work. I saw something on amazon that was an ide controller. Its a maxtor. Its new and its says its for hdd's and fdd. Should i get it? Here's a pic: ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JBkeccOnL._SX200_.jpg

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Reply 1 of 2, by Robin4

Posted on 2014-11-09, 19:23

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The only bad thing on these older style controllers was that is wasnt intergrated with the serial and the parallel printer port.. The later controllers do.. So it would spare you one ISA slot that could be needed for an other ISA card. I would never use these old style controllers again if you could find a more advanced one. But these older controllers maybe be handy to use them in the XT style computer if you want to use 1.44 MB floppys instead and running with a TSR program to call the Int13 support.

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Reply 2 of 2, by smeezekitty

Posted on 2014-11-10, 00:52

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Robin4 wrote:
The only bad thing on these older style controllers was that is wasnt intergrated with the serial and the parallel printer port.. The later controllers do.. So it would spare you one ISA slot that could be needed for an other ISA card. I would never use these old style controllers again if you could find a more advanced one. But these older controllers maybe be handy to use them in the XT style computer if you want to use 1.44 MB floppys instead and running with a TSR program to call the Int13 support.

If his motherboard already has serial and parallel (a lot do) then it would be moot. There is probably not enough free resources to support too many parallel/serial ports anyway
so additional ones wouldn't gain much

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