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From: dens@screech.rice.edu (Dennis Allen Schmitz)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: ISA bus extender w/ bus-masters??
Keywords: ISA bus extender masters
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Date: 13 Oct 90 05:47:48 GMT
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In article <239@nachos.SSESCO.com> elmquist@nachos.SSESCO.com (Chris Elmquist) writes:
>Does anyone know how to build...or where to get.. an ISA
>bus extender card (ie, so you can run the bus across a
>cable lash-up into another chassis) that will support
>bus-masters on the expansion chassis ??

My "Industrial Computer Source" catalog lists an 8 bit expansion case interface
kit for $425 and a 16 bit model for $495. They include two cards and an
interconnect cable. I have no idea what it does though. The photo shows an 
eight bit model which has a few chips on each of the boards. The manufacturing costs of the entire set cannot be higher than $100 bucks (assuming they have
crooked contractors build and assemble the boards), so in my humble judgement,
it is not worth the money--I'd try a twisted pair direct connection first.
(After all, an ISA bus has only an 8MHz clock.)

If you work for a deep pocket, though, you might want to contact them:

Industrial Computer Source
4837 Mercury Street
San Diego, CA 92111
(619) 279-0084
FAX (619) 541-1138

Later,
dEN