Hi! Mentioned in a video mentioned by Rugxulo on BTTR,
I noticed that there is a shop where you can get some
circuit boards to do-it-yourself 8-bit ISA extension
cards for your ancient computers for features such as
more RAM, IDE or Compact Flash interfaces or even USB
interfaces which are bootab
The retrocomputing crowd has a lot of these projects now, and they
generally work. Most are based on open source designs so the quality will
vary from vendor to vendor.
The 8 bit IDE cards for example are based on a project called XT-IDE that I
was part of back in 2008/2009. (See the genesis of t
Some of the Lo-tech boards and other replicas end up on eBay and are
sometimes less expensive (at least in the US).
Another small time maker, Monotech [0], has also produced boards. I
sort of consider them semi-expensive. Especially considering that
they don't seem to be original designs. They
serve all of an old PC's storage interfaces with images stored on a single
modern drive.
Original message
From: Michael Brutman
Date: 10/2/2020 21:38 (GMT-06:00)
To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS."
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Modern add-ons f
drive.
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> Original message
> From: Michael Brutman
> Date: 10/2/2020 21:38 (GMT-06:00)
> To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS."
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> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Modern add-ons for ancient PC
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> The retrocomputing crowd ha
One important note - buyer beware.
Most of these are open source projects. And in a lot of cases people are
taking the designs and not providing credit to the original designers, or
making design changes that the original designers have quality concerns
about. Monotech was one of those.
Agreed. I haven't seen [0] Monotech go out of its way to communicate
that it mostly integrated other people's designs into a MicroATX
solution [1][2]. But they still seem to release their schematics and
changes.
[0] https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=67424
[1] https://github.com/monotec
