University Looking to Update Old Hardware

We have the hardware programmers (ZIF sockets and all) that uses an ISA card (yes ISA!). We have tried something like a USB to ISA adapter (in the past), but that never worked mostly because of the need for a 32 bit system (I think, again most of this is before I took the job). I came across the hackaday link before, but didn't look too closely at the chip he was using, but took a closer look thanks to your suggestion and will pursue using some of the chips we have and build our own boards if all we'll need is the USB blaster to program them. I will also continue on with the FPGAs as well. Good to have a backup plan! I was approved for a couple of board donations and will play around with those once received. Thanks for all the help.