Ok.. I'm new to this new HwB-site, and it screams Wiki all over the place... I'm currently quite tired, but I'm damned if I can't insert my (Actually, others...) "work" someplace. So, it might just as well be here, for now.

Anywhoo, I thought I'd publish something that's not easy to come by nowadays... Took some serious Googeling to find it in the first place. Well, down to business:

It's a 24- port ISA I/O- card. Not exactly the hottest thing on the market. But, a damn nifty thingie. This one card allows you to directly (<-Take this comment with a pinch of salt) access your ISA- bus and forego the annoying I/O's of the LPTx.

But, as with any advanced hardware, there's a few snags. In this case, it would be that the 24 ports are not working simultaneous, but rather switched between in set's of 3 (Or really set's of 4. -It get's more complicated later) 8- bit channels if you like. These bit's are bi-directional, which in short means that they operate at both directions. -In and out, but one at the time, depending of what mode the circuit is set to.

The circuit is named 8255A and comes in a few diffrent flavors. Personally I've never been dealing with any diffrent of these chips, but it's always been the fact that I've either been too occupied with computers (It's a curse, because if you know the real basic's, you'll always end up helping others, all the time), or otherwise occupied. Of course, I've been running on fumes past 7-8 years when it comes to electronics, and a few months ago I really gave myself a swift kick in the head, and started to read up on the subject again.

Well, let's not having this entire section about me, so, Back2Business@YourEnd!

This is what it could look like, should you choose to build a similar: