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Posted by: crazyben on 2023-12-04 17:01:28
Can you help me identify this card. Is it emachine video card? |
Posted by: chelseayr on 2023-12-05 04:02:45
a video card won't have that unusual black port on the back plate, I'm really guessing this is some sort of network card specifically for auiðernet (not able to see what the black port is really shaped as to be certain) .. as for the many identical chips around one of the two large chips mm that seem to be the norm on certain nubus network cards anyhow as this one other example shows: https://149564388.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/nubus-net6.jpg |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2023-12-05 04:10:13
It's not AUI, AUI would have clips not screws by the side of the 15-pin connector. @crazyben, please post bigger higher-resolution photos of the card? |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-12-05 04:13:22
It's an eMachines video card. They made combined video and ethernet cards, on some the ethernet was only available with an optional daughter card, this is one of those cards without the option.
So, just a video card. Should have accelerated graphics. My experience with eMachines cards is that the specs are quite good, they tend to do millions of colours and be accelerated, but the drivers are a little flakey.
If it's cheap, jump on it, if it is... A more than a Radius PrecisionColor XK, get the PrecisionColor instead. |
Posted by: crazyben on 2023-12-05 07:43:49
It's an eMachines video card. They made combined video and ethernet cards, on some the ethernet was only available with an optional daughter card, this is one of those cards without the option.
So, just a video card. Should have accelerated graphics. My experience with eMachines cards is that the specs are quite good, they tend to do millions of colours and be accelerated, but the drivers are a little flakey.
If it's cheap, jump on it, if it is... A more than a Radius PrecisionColor XK, get the PrecisionColor instead. Thank you. I already have it. Got it lot in with other cards pretty cheap. |
Posted by: crazyben on 2023-12-05 08:24:09
Thank you. I already have it. Got it lot in with other cards pretty cheap. It's an eMachines video card. They made combined video and ethernet cards, on some the ethernet was only available with an optional daughter card, this is one of those cards without the option.
So, just a video card. Should have accelerated graphics. My experience with eMachines cards is that the specs are quite good, they tend to do millions of colours and be accelerated, but the drivers are a little flakey.
If it's cheap, jump on it, if it is... A more than a Radius PrecisionColor XK, get the PrecisionColor instead. Which Mac do you recommend I use this in? Iifx? |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-12-05 08:31:34
Which Mac do you recommend I use this in? Iifx? What do you have in your IIfx at the moment? |
Posted by: crazyben on 2023-12-05 08:34:32
What do you have in your IIfx at the moment? I am not at home. But here is the screenshot from my iifx listing. |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-12-05 09:49:05
I am not at home. But here is the screenshot from my iifx listing. Yeah, it is a step up from that card. That card only does 256 colours at 640*480 and isn't accelerated. |
Posted by: crazyben on 2023-12-05 09:50:42
Yeah, it is a step up from that card. That card only does 256 colours at 640*480 and isn't accelerated. Prefect. Thank you. |
Posted by: chelseayr on 2023-12-05 11:11:46
@cheesestraws mm good thing I guessed rather than saying that it was actually so. I mean I looked up how much pins aui had and it somehow corresponded .. didn't know about regarding cable attachment differences
interesting combo card, then again i've heard of other kind of interesting combos on non-mac's such as fastethernet&scsi for sun or all sort of old and new pci things on the windows pcs side |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2023-12-05 11:23:40
. I mean I looked up how much pins aui had and it somehow corresponded
Yup - this is why Apple used AAUI not AUI, because you can easily plug a monitor into an AUI socket and vice versa, and bad things would probably happen. The plugs are physically the same, it's just that AUI uses a sliding latch not a screw for some reason. This is abstruse trivia and I wouldn't blame anyone for not knowing it. 🙂 |
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