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First post, by Aui

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Hi everyone, found a large full size ISA card in a 486 era desktop. Can anybody tell me what that is and what it does. I tried to search for some of the labels and chip numbers, but I still cant figure out what the thing does as a whole (and how and for what I could use it today ). Thanks

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Reply 1 of 5, by dominusprog

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It looks like a property industrial controller of some kind.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Grzyb

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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997SPIE.30 … ..327O/abstract
"System has an advanced analog-digital controller"

The patent numbers also point to "Head-Mounted Display With Eye Tracking Capability".

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Reply 3 of 5, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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It's an interface board used in opthamology for tracking eye movements...

"Eye movement record showing horizontal and vertical traces of the right (R) and left (L) eyes with the Ober-2 system. Patient no 2 with only horizontal traces shown. The record showing a jerk nystagmus with a SPI (slow phase exponentially increasing velocity) waveform with a superimposed foveating saccade (arrow). Horizontal bar, 2 degrees; vertical bar, 200 ms."

Reply 4 of 5, by Aui

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Ah thanks a lot for the skillful detective work. So there may be even some additional (medical?) hardware included. It seems I wont be using this card then...

unless... HUD with eye tracking in Flight Simulator 5.0...

Reply 5 of 5, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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Aui wrote on 2024-04-18, 08:55:

Ah thanks a lot for the skillful detective work. So there may be even some additional (medical?) hardware included. It seems I wont be using this card then...

unless... HUD with eye tracking in Flight Simulator 5.0...

Someone had a similar idea 😀 (your's is cited for reference) - https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent … context=patents