<div dir="ltr">Vesa came before PCI, then 16-bit ISA, 8-bit ISA.<div><br></div><div>But there were many other more proprietary ones.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:00 PM Raymond Chen <<a href="mailto:raymondchen625@gmail.com">raymondchen625@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Last weekend I saw a PCI slot image when I was reading a book. That really brought back a lot of memories when I was younger, friends and neighbours asked me to help them with all kinds of PC hardware problems. Opened the case all the time, plugged and unplugged cards... And I couldn't recollect what's the standard before PCI... That's ISA, now I know. Thank you!<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:32 AM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Not to speak out of turn here, but have you talked to our laptop recycling experts Paul and Charles?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 11:29, Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Me too. I was crying while typing.<div><br></div><div>It always seems to be that when I have the means to move ahead on something like this, I've missed the boat on something. ;)</div><div><br></div><div>But I will contact some local e-waste folk! </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:02 AM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Man, questions like these make me want to cry -- just last year in May, my local IT joint had a massive purge of older parts, ranging from 486 to PIII and the associated ISA-bussed stuff, all e-wasted. Remarkable how many brand-new ATI VLB video cards were tossed, a project that went bad.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I think you would have the best of luck with a visit to a smaller e-waster, where you tell them that you will tear apart some older PCs and take what you want and they get some free labour. I would imagine most e-waster will frown on an outside at their premises from a liability standpoint, but mebbe not. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I think it worth a try.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I am personally looking for an ASUS ISA-486 mobo as it was best-of-breed back in the day as I have a real nice Intel 486dx4-100 CPU in hand along with the RAM/PSU/Video. Shockingly, we found a new DEC Alpha mobo that will run Win NT and likely some Debian cut. That mobo was kept:-)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_446178305840015460gmail-m_-5067970084372020837gmail-m_3850765069056256480gmail-m_-6225182889425165985gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 PM Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Greetings,<div><br></div><div>I'm looking to revive an old 386 I once had. I've found an identical model on ebay and it's on it's way, but it got me wondering if there was anything in the K/W (or even Toronto) area where older computer parts may still be available?</div><div><br></div><div>I've done a number of google searches, but most of the companies out there sell more recent systems (2010+). I'm hoping for late 80's early 90's.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone knows, please let me know!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div></div>
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