Looking for AMD mobo with ISA slots
 

Abit KT7/KT7A are likely candidates. I need an ISA slot for a GPIB card for the test bench.

I have something I can donate, have to dig it out later
hold off purchasing

I have all the parts for a nice socketA system other than mobo; figured it'd be cheapest solution to get a KT133/133A board with ISA. What do you have in mind?

don't know the board off hand
JTroutma sold it to me, let me find it tonight
- does it have the ISA slot ????? (can't quite remember)

hmmm.
 

pH, to run LabView you won't need a whole lot of horsepower - the mighty PII-266 is doing pretty well as a development test machine. But I agree a KT133A with an ISA slot would be nice. Just make sure you have at least 256MB of memory or plan to run win2K. Otherwise the swapping gets very noticeable.

I was really choosing the motherboard around the other parts at my disposal: 512MB SDR, Duron 1100 (Morgan core), etc etc. I figured that along with Win2K it would be a nice little test system that I could also eventually set up as my home's fileserver.

if you want it:
a bare VA-503 (3 ISA, 3 PCI)

Phaestus, I have a KT7-Raid if you want it.

I found an ISA GPIB card:

National Instruments
AT-GPIB/TNT

Basically, you set the IO addr base with 5 dip rocker switches, set the IRQ with some jumbers, and set the DMA with another set of jumpers.

Would that work for you?

if you don't like the dip switches I have a PnP AT GPIB card
let me know today as I am shipping a MCW6000, MCW6002, and a new pump head

Bill:
PnP is of course preferred (as long as it works well enough).

HammerSammich:
Let's make a deal; how much for the KT7?

Phaestus, PM is on the way.

well enough ?
AT will limit you to a FSB of 100
ok ? (you do not need more for what you're using)

no answer needed, sent it off

KT7 is 100fsb too so no worries (as is the Duron)

So which is your gpib product?

I also recently came to the conclusion that an ISA GPIB solution is best. eBay also has a few more products, i.e. GPIB-to-Ethernet, or GPIB-to-RS-232 or GPIB-to-USB or GPIB-to-SCSI, some of which are actually priced decently, but few have software.

I have a Fluke RTD reader/scanner setup for temperature readings that is GPIB, and also a HP scanner and DMM that are HPIB/GPIB. I still need a programmable PSU for the die simulator; not sure if that will be GPIB or just analog. The PCMCIA adapters also interest me because I like the idea of using a cheapo notebook for data collection (less space, less noise, less power). The cards are in the $100 range though and of course you need a notebook then too... Since I have all the parts for a socketA rig except the mobo I figured it made the most sense.

Agreed. Again, pc card are available on eBay, but alas software is scarce.

For reference, in case anyone else is looking into this, here's NI (National Instruments) page with links to DOS & Win3.x based software. I'm working my way up the software options...

http://www.ni.com/support/gpib/win98_95cr.htm

Oh, I meant which ISA GPIB card are you using?

NI AT GPIB PnP

Thank you. I just picked up an NI AT-GPIB/TNT (PnP). (same item, from eBay, I paid too much :( )


A useful link, for those interested:
http://www.ni.com/support/gpib/versions.htm

Edit: another link of interest?!?
http://gpib-tcl.sourceforge.net/

Almost missed it...

www.win-ent.com carries Pentium 4 mobos that have an ISA slot (for those interested). An industrial option, also pricey, but there.

I am just stocking up on Abit KT7, KT7A, and KT7E motherboards while people still have them around. A few spares and I should be good to go for years (at a fraction of the cost of industrial gear)