[rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:41:09PM -0500, Michael Free wrote:
> It wasn't the same pin count... what there was, was a second set of leaves
> deeper in the slot that made contact with another set of contacts on an EISA
> board, doubling the pin count (roughly). The advantage was, the ISA overlay
> remained intact, and since the ISA card's connector wasn't milled deep
> enough to reach the second set of contacts, you could set an ISA card in an
> EISA slot, no problems.
> 
> So, the factor is the same, but the pin count doubled by a dirty trick.
> Pretty neat :)

That explains it.  I have actually been wondering about that off and on
for years.