ancient speech synthesizers

Marcel Oats moats at orcon.net.nz
Thu Oct 12 02:14:05 EDT 2006


Naa you're right, I did mean to say USB to ISA, but I had lots of 
things happening, and it was late.
I think you could make one, though you'd need drivers.
At 07:37 Ay M 12/10/2006, you wrote:
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>I'm not sure I understand, how would that help? Did you perhaps mean
>to write isa instead of pci? If so, then that would make sense. The
>post you were replying to suggested a pci to isa adapter, though I'll
>admit a usb to isa adapter, if it was possible to make such a beast,
>would be better then a pci to isa adapter. All modern pcs today
>have one, if not more pci slots, so a usb to pci adapter doesn't make
>much sense there either, unless someone runs out of pci slots, and the
>idea is to be able to connect more pci devices via the usb bus, which
>can support ... what ... up to 128 devices I believe?
>
>As I've also said before, even a usb to isa adapter would have
>limited usefulness, given that the isa synths aren't being produced
>anymore.
>
>Greg
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:44:14PM +1300, Marcel Oats wrote:
> > I guess someone could make a USB to PCI adapter?
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