Re: PX XT/AT PCB Interface (Antipodean)

Ian.M
The questions are:

• Are the acquisition board specs high enough to make it worthwhile?  

Possibly not, it was just a thought seeing the board on my desk.

Ian.M

• Do yu have adequate hardware documentation?

If so, a PIC32 'motherboard' with a couple of ISA AT bus slots might well be a worthwhile project.   I suggest PIC32, because the USB or Ethernet interface back to your PC will add a lot of latency so you are probably going to need to download and run user code in the PIC, which would be awkward on a lesser device that cant execute from RAM.

There is good documentation for this board. However I do have other boards that would also seem to be starters for a similar process which won't have good documentation ...
 
I was thinking in terms of a PIC24EP/33EP512..... as the host as I have already done some work with the Pic24 family, so it is familiar.
 
For a more generic host device a PIC32 would probably be a more sensible choice.