Name:EISA Video Card Year Introduced:1983 Donated by: N/A Mfg's Retail Price: Description:Extended Industry Standard Architecture: The EISA Bus originated in 1988 & 1989. It was developed by the so called "Gang of Nine" (AST, Compaq, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Olivetti, Tandy, Wyse and Zenith) as an alternative to IBM's "patented" Micro Channel bus. It received limited use in 386 and 486 based Personal Computers through about 1995. Back to Museum Back to Microstar Computers