On Thu, 16 May 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:47:24PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > > > It's a server. It needs not graphics, other than the bare minimum that > > broken PCs require before they'll boot. A shitty old Tseng ISA card > > would be sufficient. > > Do not put an ISA card in a machine. Generating ISA interrupts causes > bus slow-down IIRC and quite frankly any piece of hardware that is 10yr > old probably isn't something you want to be messing with. AGP cards > starting at 30q leaves no excuse for this recycling.
It's ok, a kind (not to mention handsome, witty and modest) donor has given some random AGP card to the cause. Should anyone actually want an ISA graphics card, I quite possibly have one lying around, along with the worlds stock of ISA network cards. the hatter
