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| Mystery Focus Enhancements Card: Can anyone identify? | |
| Posted by: beachycove on 2021-02-03 05:07:57 This came to me in a lot of Mac goodies some years ago. I have never been able to figure out what it is, beyond thinking it to be video-related. Can anyone help? I do not even know if the bend in the metal plate is by accident or design. I do not want to chuck something out that is of interest, but out it will go shortly if there is nothing more for me to go on than I have at present, which is basically nothing.     | |
| Posted by: cheesestraws on 2021-02-03 05:28:40 It's not like a genlock or video overlay or something is it? Yellow RCA jacks are often composite video, I'm assuming that's S-video not ADB, and it has two monitor (?) ports? Since it has its own DC barrel jack and no edge connector and what I'm assuming is a connector for a power LED (D2 in the top left of the first photo), it was presumably in its own box originally... plug some stuff into its ports and see what happens! 😛 | |
| Posted by: PB170 on 2021-02-03 05:31:17 I have no idea, but yes, it does look like some sort of video card. Looks like two display connectors, an s-video connector, a composite video connector and a power connector. Felt like searching the web a bit, and the nearest clue I could find was this page: https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/HOWLTV10056 Same company, same numbers in the product code, same date, and video related. The product description doesn't seem to match, however. No RGB or RF-connectors on the board. But maybe it could be a clue. | |
| Posted by: 68krazy on 2021-02-03 05:37:09 There were external boxes that allowed you to display a Mac's DB-15 video output on a composite television. Could this be the PCB from one of those boxes? A DB-15 passthrough and a composite out for hooking up to a large television? | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2021-02-03 05:41:00There were external boxes that allowed you to display a Mac's DB-15 video output on a composite television. Could this be the PCB from one of those boxes? I bet you're right about that, actually. | |
| Posted by: beachycove on 2021-02-03 05:51:57 That makes sense, now that I think about it. One would need to get an eBay listing or the like and see if the ports line up to be sure, but I think we may be onto something there at last. And now I also know that it is of no conceivable interest to me. Anyone want it (for the cost of shipping)? | |
| Posted by: PB170 on 2021-02-03 06:25:53 I should have checked eBay too 🙂 Tada: Focus Enhancements M2895LL/A Apple Presentation System 15-Pin DB15 RCA S-Video https://www.ebay.com/itm/Focus-Enhancements-M2895LL-A-Apple-Presentation-System-15-Pin-DB15-RCA-S-Video/153412482196?epid=218483773&hash=item23b818b494:g:c5kAAOSwNTVfbnsO | |
| Posted by: beachycove on 2021-02-03 06:27:45 You da man! (Or is that cultural appropriation these days?) | |
Posted by: CC_333 on 2021-02-03 07:00:46is that cultural appropriation these days?I'm not sure what isn't anymore.... c | |
| Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2021-02-03 09:07:56 Looks like one of the versions of the Focus Enhancements iView. Obviously without the case. | |
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