Talk about a monster sound card!

[draconum]

Ok, I felt like taking a look in my computer that I have sitting my basment and I found a PCI video card that I put in my new computer to get it working untill I get a better one but as i was taking stuff out I found this monster of a sound card it's just abou 10 inches in length.
Anyways heres some detailed pictures.


Chris

http://www.knoxskorner.com/computer/computerparts%20001.jpg

[dyserq]

Omg ... thats huge ...
Doesn't look very advanced though lol ... how old is it ? Looks like its been gathering dusts for quite a few years lol

[jac006]

Yeah, that's an old one... but freakin titanic!

[draconum]

I don't know how old... but it's atleast 7 years.
it's just so big!


Chris

[alvino]

Haha, tis my friend is the ISA Slotted Sound Blaster 16! ISA, which is an acronym for Industry Standard Architecture, is OLD, like Ancient OLD.

[Computergen]

Kinda like my video card! Huge! :)

[alvino]

Mhm, and ISA cards were THICK too.

[draconum]

I'm glad nobody ever has to use it ever again :P


Chris

[alvino]

Haha, yeah, ISA is obsolete.

[Computergen]

Haha yeah ISA...psh!

*Hopes that someone will also make fun of ISA thereby explaining what it is, but for now Gen, act like you know what it is*

ISA, what losers!!!!

[David Lindon]

Wow, rather big!

[SirVal]

That's no sound card..... That's a motherboard! :D Nice, I'm sure that's classed as an antique by now?

[slayer322]

omg, i had that sound card in my first computer, the cd rom drive went thorugh the card instead o thorugh the mobo, good sound though (back in the day)

[alvino]

Yup. In my OLD Pentium MMX machine, the sound card and modem were ISA slotted cards too.

[mayorredbeard]

Haha yeah ISA...psh!

*Hopes that someone will also make fun of ISA thereby explaining what it is, but for now Gen, act like you know what it is*

ISA, what losers!!!!


Before agp, before pci, before eisa (extended industry standard architechture), before mca (micro channe, architechture, the was ISA (Industry Standard Architechture).

It was first used in the 1980's as an 8-bit system to connect other cards to the motherboard. Later in the mid 1980's it became a 16 bit system. It was primarily used on IBM machines, although some other companies did use it. Installing ISA devices was a burden, and it wasn't even plug and play at all untill the last throws of its life. Installing new hardware was a real bugger. The rest of the computer industry answered to ISA with MCA, which was answered with eISA, which was later replaced by pci.

*Pft* Noob isa card :P

[Opteronix]

Ah yes, ISA, what a wonderful industry forward moving interface. Just remember, even PCIe uses a Binar controller, which is the EXACT same from ISA.. LMAO! We haven't advanced as much as you think! GO ISA!

[alvino]

Yeah, but ISA was so bulky...it was not bad though.

[Neodude112320]

He He,i had a sound blaster 16,they are sooooooooo HUGE

[MikeReiner]

I have a few ISA sound cards lying around.. one of them happens to also be 10" long... crazy stuff. Reminds me, my brother's old PC had an ISA ethernet card... that was just WOW to me..

[joxley1990]

Mike, this thread goes back to August 16th 2005.

Dont drag up old threads please.

[lhuser]

Nope, draging up old threads isn't allowed :)

And TBH, I have one that takes the whole case dimension...about 15"

Soooo.....*thread closed*