Ancient Videocards of the Future

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subzero2785

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Found this in an old box. Its a 1989 Ati Vga Wonder 16 ISA. I believe this is a 512k version, and it still works.

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check out the video ports, this is when vga was the thing of the future.

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vga feature connector, look below.
Does anyone have any older cards to post up?
 
i have to find some working ones, the ones i had to "mod" this card were corrupted in some way.
 
thats not an attempt at dual display... look at the amount of holes in each of the connections, its an either OR solution.
 
subzero2785 said:
check out the dual display, this is when vga was the thing of the future.

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that, i believe, was a early attempt at having a dual videocard solution, much like Nvidia's Sli of the early 90s.[/QUOTE]It's not dual display. There were some oddball digital VGA monitors that used the 9 pin port (similar to EGA monitors).

There's another thread for posting old video cards. Here's the one I still have and posted in that thread:
[img]http://www.notveryserio.us/pix/egawonder.jpg

The EGA Wonder is a notable card for one thing: TV out, both composite and with separate chroma/luma (like S-Video).
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first off, im talking about that small connection that looks similar to an Sli setup of the voodoo2 days, not the two EGA and VGA connections. Also i worded those two connections wrong, shouldn't of said they were dual, they are indeed separate.


nice pic pxc.
 
desrin said:
thats not an attempt at dual display... look at the amount of holes in each of the connections, its an either OR solution.
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wrong picture, look at the very last one
 
subzero2785 said:
first off, im talking about that small connection that looks similar to an Sli setup of the voodoo2 days, not the two EGA and VGA connections.
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That was a VGA feature connector, pre-VESA version. :p It was for doing overlays like with really old TV cards. I think I still have a really old character generator card that uses that.

edit: see this page for the "VGA feature connector" pinout: http://www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/vga_feature.html You can even match the pinout from your pictures of the front and back.
 
pxc said:
That was a VGA feature connector, pre-VESA version. :p It was for doing overlays like with really old TV cards. I think I still have a really old character generator card that uses that.

edit: see this page for the "VGA feature connector" pinout: http://www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/vga_feature.html You can even match the pinout from your pictures of the front and back.
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thanks for the info man, that thing was driving me crazy.
 
I have an MDA card here somewhere (text-only, monochrome), a full-size 8 bit ISA card from an original IBM PC. Doesn't get any older than that :)
I used to use that as a second display for debugging. Was very convenient when doing graphics.
Had to give it up when I got my first ISA-less PC.
I'd take a picture but I have no idea where the card is. I think it's in my old P150, which is now running as a server 24/7... in which case I can't just take it out and get a picture.
 
I owned this card (the VGA Wonder). In fact, it was the first vid card I installed myself, I'd guess around `93, in my 386SX-25MHz. That one looks like a 256k card upgradeable to 512k with the right chips (which is what I did with mine).
 
Just thinking about this and the name of the thread is creepy. Just imagine, 15 years down the road our hardware will be put in a thread(if they still exist like they do now) like this comparing our "future" hardware.
 
serbiaNem said:
Just thinking about this and the name of the thread is creepy. Just imagine, 15 years down the road our hardware will be put in a thread(if they still exist like they do now) like this comparing our "future" hardware.
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It will happen. We'll see some SLi setup and go DAMN THAT'S OLD.
 
LoneWolf said:
I owned this card (the VGA Wonder). In fact, it was the first vid card I installed myself, I'd guess around `93, in my 386SX-25MHz. That one looks like a 256k card upgradeable to 512k with the right chips (which is what I did with mine).
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Upgradeable video cards now-a-days would be cool.
 
Sun Turbo XGX, currently running in my SS20 being used as a firewall. It has all the designers names listed on it.

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saturnine2 said:
Sun Turbo XGX, currently running in my SS20 being used as a firewall. It has all the designers names listed on it.
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yeah ive seen these types of cards, oddly in thrift stores around my area. Why a machine by sun ended up there, i dont know. But they usually sell for $300-400 for the whole system, or what was left of it.
 
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