ISA 16-Bit Card Slot

tuxify

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I just took apart the weirdest computer ever. To start off, when I opened it, I found a double decker motherboard, with 5 16-Bit ISA slots, and 2 PCI Slots. Below the first board is a second board with the CPU, RAM, Chipsets, ETC.
Second of all, it came with a hard drive that was about twice as big (width and length) and about half the height of a normal HDD. I found this really funny.
Thirdly, I found this computer had a thing called a Photo Drive. You put a picture up to the slot (looks like a CD slot) and it sucks it up. I took a look at it and noticed there was a copier in it (like a copying machine). It fits in the 5.25" slot, so I was hoping I could add it to my build, seeing as how a photo scanner would be awesome. I took it apart, and after stripping every screw in the case, I finally got it out. It was attached to a card which was plugged into one of the 16-Bit ISA (I'm assuming it's this because I looked it up on Wikipedia). I unhooked it from the card, because my motherboard does not have any ISA slots. It's a 10-Pin female hookup. Thats all I can tell from it.
I don't currently have my digital camera, so I am unable to take pictures of this odd case or the connector, but do any of you know anything about this product or the type of thing I would need to do to put this working in my computer? I have the Gigabyte 570sli. Thanks.
 
I don't really need a scanner. I just want this ghetto contraption in my computer. If it's too big of a hassle, I'll drop it, but it'd be cool to have.
 
I just took apart the weirdest computer ever. To start off, when I opened it, I found a double decker motherboard

It's an motherboard with an side daughterboard

with 5 16-Bit ISA slots, and 2 PCI Slots. Below the first board is a second board with the CPU, RAM, Chipsets, ETC.

Every old Compaq Presario (with K5/K6,PII,Pentium,PI) would have that. Google or ebay it.

Second of all, it came with a hard drive that was about twice as big (width and length) and about half the height of a normal HDD. I found this really funny.

Evil! How dare you mock the Quantum Bigfoot???

Thirdly, I found this computer had a thing called a Photo Drive. You put a picture up to the slot (looks like a CD slot) and it sucks it up. I took a look at it and noticed there was a copier in it (like a copying machine). It fits in the 5.25" slot, so I was hoping I could add it to my build, seeing as how a photo scanner would be awesome. I took it apart, and after stripping every screw in the case, I finally got it out. It was attached to a card which was plugged into one of the 16-Bit ISA (I'm assuming it's this because I looked it up on Wikipedia). I unhooked it from the card, because my motherboard does not have any ISA slots. It's a 10-Pin female hookup. Thats all I can tell from it.
I don't currently have my digital camera, so I am unable to take pictures of this odd case or the connector, but do any of you know anything about this product or the type of thing I would need to do to put this working in my computer? I have the Gigabyte 570sli. Thanks.

Interesting. Older computers used to have stuff that I would dream of. (Ex : Laptops with an onboard dot matrix printer :eek:)
 
I just realized that if my computer didn't have an ISA slot, then there is no way to plug in the card that computes the picture or whatever. Oh well, maybe I'll just have to put it back in the old computer and use that for pictures...
 
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