Re: PCI bus I/O expansion cards and/or modems

["Michael Bender" <Michael.Bender@Eng.Sun.COM>]

> I'm hoping that someone manufactures an I/O expansion card -- that plugs
> into a PCI slot, mind you -- which will at bare minimum provide me with 
> one additional parallel port.  It would be even better if I could find a
> PCI SCSI adapter card which provided an internal SCSI connection, an
> external SCSI connection and a parallel port; this would service the Zip
> drive *and* provide the parallel port, leaving that lone ISA slot open
for
> the faxmodem.  And I'd still have one PCI slot open for the future.

How about using a 2 or 4-socket ISA-PCMCIA (R2) bridge in your ISA slot,
then you could plug in modem, parallel port and SCSI cards (if an R2 SCSI
card gives you adequate performance with the Zip drive). You'd then have
two
PCI slots open for things like high-speed networking and a fast frame
buffer/accellerator card.

mike


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