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Never thought I would be requesting old mobos with ISA slots, but I actually need one for work.

I have an application at work for our Super Micrometer that has a laser attached to make precise measurements. It uses a old ISA card and DOS app for running the program with the Super Micrometer. There is NO other way to make the system work because of the requirement for the add-in card that uses the old ISA bus.

The board can be a slot one, but I would need a slot one to socket 370 to be included. I have some old Celeron socket 400's laying around my house. Any other board I would need the processor as a minimum. The pc will be running Windows 95 only. The processor should be at a minimum Pentium 2 or max Pentium 3.

Hey Exec, let me look in my back room. I think I still have one in there... *runs off to look* post back in a sec.

All I found on the first run was an Azza PT-5VMD Socket 7 mobo with an AMD K6-400 on it. Not sure if that would float for you or not. I can probably get my hands on a slot 1 board w/cpu for you, what is the slowest CPU you'd want?

eGo

I'd check a thrift store. The local Mercy House has a big stack of motherboards in the computer section from that era.

I just found a complete Gateway system in the closet that has an ATX Mobo & CPU, has 2 ISA slots. LMK if you're interested..

eGo

Originally posted by eGoCeNTRoNiX
I just found a complete Gateway system in the closet that has an ATX Mobo & CPU, has 2 ISA slots. LMK if you're interested..

eGo

That should the trick. What speed is the cpu? I don't need anything over 800MHz.

It's a PII 333. Will that work for ya? If not, let me keep digging. I know I had a Slot I 400mhz and mobo laying around here somewhere..

eGo

That should be fine.

Cool, just PM me telling me what all you need and I'll get it boxed up to be shipped out tomorrow.

eGo

wow whata find, chal is top notch for this fo shoo!

I am not trying to hijack this thread, I was merely interested if others have similar issues. I have had to do ISA migrations of LabView and EZ-Chrom cards, along with others, and always find this interesting.

In case anyone needs newer vintages, I have found these bulletproof



SOYO P3T ISA

and am intrigued by this:

P4 ISA !!

Good luck with the board you have. If you have problems or future needs, I have a bunch of ISA boards as well.

YOu may be better off with a slow CPU: Some of the timings, especially with EZ-CHROM cards, are flakey with CPUs faster than 600 MHz, in my experience.

Bill

Thanks Bill. Ego was kind enough to send me one of his pieces of junk laying round - a P2 233MHz which is good enough for this setup I have at work.

Just out of curiosity who makes the micrometer? We do that sort of thing where I work.

Pratt & Whitney. We purchased the mic back in 1987 for $20k. Finally last year, I was able to upgrade it to a laser encoder. Improved our accuracy from ±0.000030 to better than ±0.000010 inches. Kinda funny it runs on a DOS app with ISA card.

I didn't know pratt & whitney made those. Thats a pretty accurate unit. I'm more in the force and material testing side but we use laser extensometer's on some of our material test systems. I would like to get into dimensional like that though. Sounds neat.