Last week, I took my ISA to USB card out of my Tandy 1000 TX. Today it finds a new home in my 486 DX4/66. Let's get it installed and talk about it briefly in a 🧵 here!
And before I get into that, recall that if you purchase one of these ISA to USB cards, they are pretty much good for mass storage devices only. Also, I did design a bracket for these a few years back if you need one!
When I cracked the case on this system, I realized that pretty much every slot is in use. I am going to remove this second serial port header for now, which freed up the bottom slot. All put back together, and this is what we see now. This is one power-packed 486 PC 😂
And, yes, I do realize that I could remove this punch out here and put the serial header in it. But I didn't want to commit to that at this point!
I took a USB stick and made a 2GB partition, formatted it using FAT16, and dropped a test file on it!
I also installed @FreddyVETELE's CH375 driver for the card. Here you can see it loading on bootup!
@FreddyVETELE And as we can see from the intro photo, we're able to read the file without any issues! We can even see the file in Windows 3.1x. Just look at all of those drives too 😂.
Anyway, this has been fun as always, thx for following along!
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