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Well, they may be, but not quite yet.  As John Covici pointed out, you
can get cables and brackets to extend the serial headers on your mother
board, if it has them.

On the other hand, if you have an old isa card, and are in the market to
buy a new computer, there are still companiesout there that make
computers with both isa and pci slots, you just have to look for them. 
One that I found while doing a search is Nixsys Open Systems.  Their web
site is nixsys.com, where you will find a link for isa slot computers. 
They come in both short tower and rack mount configurations.  Hope this
helps.

Gene