kyodai
Experienced Member
Well the thing is that my buddy got an XTIDE card that he bought for kinda an arm and a leg a while ago. I think it's one of these lo-tech kits that was already assembled. He bought it "used" for like 80 Dollars. Now we want more of them for various of our classics and we couldn't even find anyone selling a fully assembled one - and we actually want 5 cards.
Soooo, to make the story short - we thought about buying a programmer, a bag full of 16KBit Eproms and a bag full of old (useless) BNC ethernet 16-bit ISA cards since we can get them very cheap and wanna abuse them as a boot rom. Drawback: One ISA slot gone (Should also work fine in an 8-bit slot), no IDE controller on the card (but if you read this you prolly already have one!)
So before we buy 15 cards and have 10 left rotting in our shelves i wanted to ask if anyone is interested in these.
The plan is to use these 16-bit ISA network cards simply to boot the Eprom (We find BNC ethernet useless) since all the machines we got have spare ISA slots.
Admitted the network card is not that interesting, but if we buy them in bulk we could offer them with a brand new 16KBit XTIDE Eprom for under 20 dollars. The big advantage is that with the 16KBit Eprom we could also include a recent built with the boot menu and stuff, actually you could pick from any XTIDE flavor.
Well so if there's any interest we'd go on and buy the network cards and Eproms in bulk. With our current planning we'd have 10 left for sale. So if anyone is interested then let me know. I think final price would be somewhere between 15-20 USD each (Plus shipping, depends on where you're located). ANy feedback, interest and flaming welcome...
Soooo, to make the story short - we thought about buying a programmer, a bag full of 16KBit Eproms and a bag full of old (useless) BNC ethernet 16-bit ISA cards since we can get them very cheap and wanna abuse them as a boot rom. Drawback: One ISA slot gone (Should also work fine in an 8-bit slot), no IDE controller on the card (but if you read this you prolly already have one!)
So before we buy 15 cards and have 10 left rotting in our shelves i wanted to ask if anyone is interested in these.
The plan is to use these 16-bit ISA network cards simply to boot the Eprom (We find BNC ethernet useless) since all the machines we got have spare ISA slots.
Admitted the network card is not that interesting, but if we buy them in bulk we could offer them with a brand new 16KBit XTIDE Eprom for under 20 dollars. The big advantage is that with the 16KBit Eprom we could also include a recent built with the boot menu and stuff, actually you could pick from any XTIDE flavor.
Well so if there's any interest we'd go on and buy the network cards and Eproms in bulk. With our current planning we'd have 10 left for sale. So if anyone is interested then let me know. I think final price would be somewhere between 15-20 USD each (Plus shipping, depends on where you're located). ANy feedback, interest and flaming welcome...
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