Abstract: A bus slot conversion module including a canister for housing peripherals and coupling the peripherals to a bus slot of a computer backplane. The canister is designed to detachably mount within an available slot of a rack mounted chassis. The canister includes peripheral slots designed to couple with the peripherals and also includes a bus slot connecter designed to couple with a bus slot of a computer. Within the canister are electrical interconnects for connecting the peripheral slots having one type of pin configuration with the bus slot connector that has another type of pin configuration. In variations, the bus slot connector is a compact Peripheral Interconnect (PCI) connector and the peripheral slots are Single Connection Attachment (SCA) slots.