P4 board with 3 ISA slots

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited January 2004 in Hardware
I know that a few people have been trying to find a board capable of running a reasonably modern CPU and ISA devices in the past few months.

Well, I was just browsing Adex Electronic's website for a project I've got in mind, and I happened across their motherboard:
http://www.adexelec.com/mbsa-4133.htm

SA-4133 Industrial Motherboard Specification

CPU: Intel Pentium 4, socket 478. 1.3GHz to 3.0 GHz.
CPU Bus: 533 MHz / 400 MHz Front side bus frequency.
BIOS: Award BIOS.
Memory: Two DDR memory slots, up to 2Gbytes.
On-board I/O: VGA - Built-in AGP, 4X port.
LAN: 10/100Mb or 10/100/1000Mb (G option).
Audio: Built-in with AC97 Codec.
IrDA: One, pin header.
Parallel Port: One, SPP/EPP/ECP compatible.
Serial Port: COM1, COM3, COM4 (RS232); COM2 (RS232/RS422/RS485).
FDC: Supports up to 2.88Mbyte Floppy.
IDE: Two enhanced ports, support up to 4 devices.
USB: Supports USB1.1 and 2.0 spec. 4 ports.
Keyboard / Mouse: PS2 type.
Expansion Slots: One AGP 4X slot, three PCI-32 bit slots and three ISA-16 bit slots.
Hardware Monitor : System and CPU voltage and temperature.
Watchdog Timer: Reset generation.
Power consumption: ATX 12V Power Connector. Approximately 5A ~ 7A of +5V and 6A ~ 9A of +12V depending on Processor and Memory configuration.
Temperature: Operating 0.0C ~ 60.0C (32.0F - 140.0F) Storage -20.0C ~ 80.0C (-68.0F ~ 176.0F)
Dimensions: 305mm x 244mm (12" x 9.6"), ATX Form Factor.
Warranty: One year.

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Comments

  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited January 2004
    gonna have to ask:
    dear god why?

    i still have some isa components kicking around, but what do you have in mind geeky?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Oh, this isn't for me. I was looking at Adex's riser cards. I'm thinking I may try and cram honest-to-god desktop components into something vaguely resembling a laptop form factor (18-24" wide x 14-18" deep x 3" thick + whatever thickness is necessary for the LCD) but I looked at their rackmount component section just out of curiosity. And, they have this board.

    Shorty and Prime were both looking for something like this, as I recall. So, I figured I'd throw it up here in case anyone needs it in the future.

    As for why... there are still devices that are not available on PCI cards.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Many electronics engineers would love something like this. A lot of National Instruments equipment like data acquisition cards are still ISA only. GPIB comes to mind as well.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited January 2004
    ........ wow............................................. just wow
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited January 2004
    ah, that makes sense prime.... i've seen data aquisition catalogs (work in the mailroom at school) that goto the EE professors, and i do occationally see isa cards in there
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    These are probably designed for robotics controllers or something.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Thanks Geeky! :D

    That's just what Im looking for...

    For those who are wondering why... well ..see my thread..

    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6619&highlight=isa

    Id almost given up hope.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I'd use ISA if there were any decent Windows XP support for what I have. Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 & AWE64 Gold with 8 MB and 4MB of SoundFont bank RAM respectively, and all my real 56k modems. Real 56k modems for PCI are still close to $100, so I only have one. I have a stack of real 56k modems for ISA, and you can get those for nearly free now.

    If you don't understand what a real modem is, it's a modem with a hardware controller. They're few and far between these days, since software modems (Winmodems) are MUCH cheaper, hence most people buy those. Winmodems use your CPU to do all the functions normally done by hardware, like pick up the phone, modulate an analog signal with digital information, and demodulate an analog signal to obtain digital information. In short, surfing with one is quite analogous to playing CounterStrike at maximum resolution using software rendering.

    -drasnor :fold:
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