USB on Older PC

[kobayashimaru]

Greetings!

Did anyone ever make a USB interface card for either ISA or VESABus? I have a 486 system I'd like to use for writing floppies for other computers and a would like an easy way to transfer files from my laptop. I know that FreeDOS can handle USB mass storage.

Thanks!
Joe

 

[NeXT]

USB came around in the PCI era and nobody made ISA USB cards.
That being said, there seems to be at least ONE more recent card made that will let you mount USB drives but I've only seen photos of it.

 

[krebizfan]

There was one ISA card back in the 90s that had USB ports. The more recent card was talked about in the earlier incarnation of this forum; one example is at http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/archive/index.php/t-39340.html

 

[MarsMan2020]

All the threads were moved over, so that thread is on this new forum here - http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthre...-when-use-isa-to-usb-card-in-IBM-5160!/page13

 

[Stone]

I have a 486 system I'd like to use for writing floppies for other computers and a would like an easy way to transfer files from my laptop.

LapLink works great for that.

 

[kobayashimaru]

Thanks everyone! I think I get the idea
I guess I can run around with diskettes! I hope my USB drive will work with Win10

Thanks again!