# USB card question. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-card-question/82496 "2001-09-19T01:00:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-card-question/82496/1 "2001-09-19T01:00:44Z")
Is is possible to get a USB card for a 486DX AT type computer which has ISA and VLB slots? And if so, since computer shops where I live only deal in new products, how would I look this up on the web? I tried eBay and found: [http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1276156072](http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1276156072) [http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1275817171](http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1275817171) But they’re probably not compatible. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-card-question/82496/2 "2001-09-19T01:43:31Z")
Your going to need a pci slot and probably a pentium or higher. I don’t think its going to work for you. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-card-question/82496/3 "2001-09-19T01:54:31Z")
By coincidence we got this question at work yesterday. I looked at our suppliers and none of them have anything but PCI USB cards… so it looks like you are out of luck, sorry. Keith ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-card-question/82496/4 "2001-09-19T02:05:12Z")
That’s ok, I kind of figured that that might be the case. Thanks anyway.