ISA Connectors

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Can you still buy the 18x2 pin edgeboard that makes an 8 bit ISA slot into a
> 16 bit one?

Isn't it just a standard 0/1" pitch edge connector? It shouldn't be hard 
to get.

> 
> I was toying with the idea of expanding my Amiga 2000 (with 286 bridgeboard)
> from 2x16 and 2x8bit to 4x16bit ISA slots and installing a SCSI card, video
> card, network card, and something else. The 2000 has the pinholes for the
> connector so installing the edgeboard should not be that big of a deal.
> Looking through my old 486 motherboards I noticed that they 16 bit slots are
> all 1 piece, so desoldering one of them wont work.

IIRC, there's sigificant space between the 2 parts of the connector, so 
it should be possible to cut your desoldered connector apart and use only 
the '16 bit' part. Or can't you desolder the '8 bit' connectr from the 
Amiga and remplace the lot with one of the connectors from the old 
motherboard?

-tony