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ISA Bus expansion to secondary case

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First post, by Xanxi

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Hi there.

I have been looking for a long time for those boards which allow to expand the ISA bus of a computer to a secondary case with more slots, just like the IBM 5161 except for 16 bits wide bus.

I have now those boards with their 2 meters cable from Kontron, so-called ECIK-2001, but i have no documentation or software whatsoever.

Any one here experienced with these boards?

My project is to expand the ISA bus of my Amiga 4000 in a secondary case but i might use it for another computer.

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Reply 1 of 5, by Horun

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Nice ! Never played with them but had seen them before a few times.
This link may give some info: http://web.archive.org/web/20020822223849/htt … exp/ptrc_at.htm
If you look close they are the same adapters....

added: looks like 2011 was last time on their website with good info: http://web.archive.org/web/20101119120622/htt … sa/ptrc_at.html
but links to software does not work
opps maybe 2018 was their last reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20181010090356/htt … sa/ptrc_at.html
Good luck !

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Reply 2 of 5, by Xanxi

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Thanks for these links.
I badly need software, unless these boards work as passive adapters. I don't know if there is a software part with the IBM 5161 bus expansion.

Reply 3 of 5, by Horun

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They have lots of .pdf's on their website but only found this for the PTRC
https://www.accesio.com/MANUALS/PTRC-AT%20THI … 0TO%20CHECK.PDF
added: also found this: http://analoginput.com/MANUALS/PTRC-AT%20INST … INSTRUCTION.PDF

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Reply 4 of 5, by weedeewee

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at first glance there doesn't seem to be any microcontroller on those cards requiring software for initialization so, I'm guessing those are pretty much plug in, attach cable & forget about it being there.

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Reply 5 of 5, by Xanxi

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Thanks Horun, you are expert at diging out things, i couldn't find anything useful myself with Google.
Yes weedeewee, you are probably right as the above pdf don't seem to mention any software.

Now, i need to find a nice secondary case with a backplane.

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