Hi Actually ISA IDE cards were very common because the clone AT board makers did't have much embeded. Some of those cards could be used in AT or XT mode. The hard item to find would have been an XT 8 bit card but I think they may have existed as well. There were even a few ISA 8086 boards for that matter, but good luck finding one. I'm certain there were even a few 186 motherboards but I don't know if they any ISA buses.
The interesting thing would be to get the bios of an old machine like that to work with a 4gb SD! It would probably take a month to highlevel format the thing! ESDIs were pretty commonm BTW: My second "real" PC had a pair of Micropolis 1355s running I think Dos and 3.1. Boy were those drives fast! They hung off a 386/40 with 4mb ram. And there was a Tiga TMS 34010 graphics co-proccessor with 2mb vram, all stuffed into a KS-010 monster tower. I ran Autocad 12 at 1280 hires on a modified monster 20 inch Hitachi. I was in heaven! Still got the tower somewhere. Javier Javier http://www.ultragone.net www.ultragone.net ____________________________________________________________________________________ Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews, get listings, and more! http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/3658 * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
