If this is for personal use and you have old machines around with ISA slots
it isn't too difficult.

Otherwise, you'd have to figure on using PCI and is Complicated with capital
"C".

In the ISA case the system typically doesn't assign the interrupts and
ports: you do.

An ISA bus is pretty easy to decode and buffer with just a few chips.
Several companies sell (sold?) prototyping boards with prewired decodes and
buffers, allowing you to use the rest of the board for your custom
circuitry.

Access to your hardware from DOS is trivial.

From Win31 a little trickier.

From Win95/98/Me still trickier

From WinNT/2000/XP the trickiest.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jinx" <joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 12:54 PM
Subject: [PIC]: PIC in a PC


> I'm trying to tidy up a couple of projects, and one thing that would
> help enormously is to get the circuitry inside the PC. Does anyone
> have links to or practical examples of how to get a board working
> in an EISA or PCI slot ? I've got a couple of 486's that are spare
> for this, more than likely I'd want to do it in DOS (under BASIC ?),
> although if it's easy (ha !!) to do with Win I can go that way. I've read
> up on the hardware and have some experience making plug-in boards
> on smaller machines (eg Commodore 64), but don't have a clue as
> yet about the PC s/w to do it. For example, how do you get the PC to
> recognise the board, assign an IRQ to it etc etc
>
> TIA
>
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