> old isa soundcards are really cheap ....
I tried to find one for my 486 75Mhz, 28 Megs of ram, PC with a
Vesa Local Bus. There were problems: You need a driver for the
cards, and the flea market type cards did not have the software
driver. I do not know if these drivers are generic or card specific,
like video drivers. Also, the sellers were not sure if the cards
that had were plug and play or not. In one case he looked for
dip switches that allowed one to select the IRG, found none, and
concluded ``must be a plug and play''.
If I need to know the brand of the card to find the driver, it does n
not seem easy to discover the brand from inspecting the card.
Stupid question maybe: Is ``ISA'' a kind of slot or a kind of bus?
That is, can there be an ``ISA'' slot on a PCI bus?
