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Quick Quiz - Does anyone recognize this card?
Posted by: Heep on 2010-05-14 10:57:56
Hello,

Just came across this old NuBus card and I can't figure out what it is, just wondering if you guys can help!
Posted by: trag on 2010-05-14 11:20:09
Well, it's got something to do with television or video processing. The boxes for NTSC and PaL imply that. Also, there's a bank of VRAM labeled "Frame Buffer" so presumably it can work as a video card or drive a television type monitor as well. It looks like it used to have some kind of break-out box that connected to the connector on the end of the card.

I think "Digital F/X" was the name of a company back when? You might try googleing on that term.
Posted by: trag on 2010-05-14 11:22:38
Here's a very short magazine article which refers to the company:

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-9772185/digital-fx-takes-video.html

Mountain View, Calif. -- Digital F/X Inc., which made its entry into the Mac market last year with an on-line desktop video editing system, last week introduced software for off-line video editing.
Soft F/X, a $995 program due in April, does with software what the $9,995 Video F/X system does with hardware (see MacWEEK, July 31, 1990). It lets users edit and organize video and audio clips into a presentation.
So, presumably, the July31, 1990 article would discuss the hardware you probably have there.
Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-05-15 07:51:13
Interesting. That port on the top of the card looks like it would use a cable to connect to the DAV port on the Power Mac AV card (which has the exact same type of connector)
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