Can anyone help me buy one of these for my 486 project ? So far I have working network card (BNC and TP)SCSI disk, IDE disk, 3½ inch floppy, 5¼ inch floppy, Soundcard and HP CD-Writer, can read old stuff and transfer to new machines runnig windows 95 on the SCSI disk and windows 98SE on the IDE.

or this http://www.diytrade.com/china/pd/6269080/PCM_9010_ISA_USB_R_W_Module.html

Why would you do this? 

Quote from: XEntity on November 14, 2012, 23:20:26 PMWhy would you do this? 

that's what I was thinking too :-o

For fun to see what can be done with an old top end 486

Now posting from the 486 using MSIE 5.0 a bit slow but workable.

I take it you've already scoured ebay for these things?

Actually never used ebay (I use a swedish auction site)It is not a very old card and probably hard to get hold of for a reasanable price.

I got Windows 95 running on a 386 DX40 with 4mb ram

Found a good use the machine has 3½" and 5 1/4 " floppy drives that I can reach and read\write  from my ubuntu lappy

used to sell 486 with windows 95b - used to work fine. USB was usually with a header soldered to the motherboard.
No idea where you would get an ISA USB card these days. I'll take a look next time in my loft for you Bear. I got some ISA cards up there.
Dont recall ever having a USB one though, but who knows

Sounds a bit backwards to me too, like having an IDE SSD. I guess for old machines in offices that want to put USB pens in it is a good idea, can't say I'd ever heard of them before this thread though. Maybe see if a USB to serial converter exists (i'm assuming you have a COM1/2 port)?

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on November 15, 2012, 18:43:25 PM
Sounds a bit backwards to me too, like having an IDE SSD. I guess for old machines in offices that want to put USB pens in it is a good idea, can't say I'd ever heard of them before this thread though. Maybe see if a USB to serial converter exists (i'm assuming you have a COM1/2 port)?

if such a thing exists it would be horribly slow, from memory serial tops out at 192kbps, and thats the shiny ones. cool project though bear, before I discovered DOSBOX I used to have a P166 running DOS 6.22 for running old games on.

Quote from: Eggtastico on November 15, 2012, 16:02:43 PM
used to sell 486 with windows 95b - used to work fine. USB was usually with a header soldered to the motherboard.
No idea where you would get an ISA USB card these days. I'll take a look next time in my loft for you Bear. I got some ISA cards up there.
Dont recall ever having a USB one though, but who knows

I do not think the cards excisted at the time the one above is much newer, the header you speak about must have been for PS2 connectors (mouse and kbrd)