PC/104 or ISA motherboards.

[Cory Seligman]

Hi group,

I've got an embedded application that I've developed hardware and
software for on an old Pentium 120 as a prototype platform. I designed
ISA bus cards, and wrote some multithreaded software in linux, since
it was the fastest way of doing what I wanted.

The time has come now to make the whole thing more standalone and
develop it further using components that are still available. ISA bus
motherboards dont seem to exist new, and PC/104 seems very expensive
for what it is.

I've looked a bit at the mini-itx motherboards and so on, but none
seem to have ISA bus.

The basic requirements are:

High 486 or low end pentium class. (Basically so it can run a minimum
config Linux with enough guts left over to do the number crunching I
need. The P120 I'm running now is about right)

ISA bus is better (since the PCBS I designed are ISA edge connectors,
but I could redesign for PC/104 if I have to)

preferably ethernet on board, but of course I can use a card for that.
10Mbps is fine.

Still available new. We've gotten beyond being able to justify
scrounging old stuff.

Small(ish) form factor is better, but not critical.

anyone got any suggestions? I'm having a lot of trouble finding stuff
like this available in Australia.

I would have expected that a couple of hundred dollars should about
cover it, since it's be very old established technology.

thanks,
Cory

 

[Courage]

Dude .. go to the local dump you';; find what you what i have a heap of MOBO
with isa

Plus i have a stakc of brand new isa 10MB cards ..

but enough of that .. you shouldn't need to offer money to get this crappy
hardware

Unless i am missing something you are just refersing to old school DX /early
pents that were not completely ATI dependent ?

If this is the case i have a heap of old ram for these boards (72 pin)
aswell






"Cory Seligman" <coryms+google@azazel.eng.monash.edu.au> wrote in message
news:a64581c0.0407012201.12b8e583@posting.google.com...

Hi group,

I've got an embedded application that I've developed hardware and
software for on an old Pentium 120 as a prototype platform. I designed
ISA bus cards, and wrote some multithreaded software in linux, since
it was the fastest way of doing what I wanted.

The time has come now to make the whole thing more standalone and
develop it further using components that are still available. ISA bus
motherboards dont seem to exist new, and PC/104 seems very expensive
for what it is.

I've looked a bit at the mini-itx motherboards and so on, but none
seem to have ISA bus.

The basic requirements are:

High 486 or low end pentium class. (Basically so it can run a minimum
config Linux with enough guts left over to do the number crunching I
need. The P120 I'm running now is about right)

ISA bus is better (since the PCBS I designed are ISA edge connectors,
but I could redesign for PC/104 if I have to)

preferably ethernet on board, but of course I can use a card for that.
10Mbps is fine.

Still available new. We've gotten beyond being able to justify
scrounging old stuff.

Small(ish) form factor is better, but not critical.

anyone got any suggestions? I'm having a lot of trouble finding stuff
like this available in Australia.

I would have expected that a couple of hundred dollars should about
cover it, since it's be very old established technology.

thanks,
Cory