{"id":18807,"date":"2018-05-11T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18807"},"modified":"2018-05-11T08:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T07:34:01","slug":"custom-pcb-isa-card-uses-a-raspberry-pi-zero-w-to-provide-a-server-to-a-pc-xt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18807","title":{"rendered":"Custom PCB ISA card uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W to provide a server to a PC\/XT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scott Baker has a vintage computing habit! For his latest project, he wanted to solve the issue of transferring files between a PC\/XT and a modern desktop. To do this, he created an ISA card PCB (seen above) which takes a Raspberry Pi Zero W, mounted by the GPIO pins. A 1kb RAM chip allows communication between the ISA interface and the Pi and the Pi runs a Python server that makes local files available to the shared memory on the ISA card. The PC\/XT believes that it has a floppy connected, but what it actually has is the Pi server! You can read a lot more over on Scott’s blog<\/a>\u00a0and see a video of it in action, along with lots of details, below:<\/p>\n