First post, by Ozzuneoj
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... and is it more useful than all of those juicy 1Mbit DRAM chips it has?
Seriously, this thing has 36 DRAM chips (18 100ns chips and 18 70ns chips), which are extremely useful for old video cards and other devices from the early 90s... but I can't bring myself to part it out without know for sure that it is never going to be useful to anyone. Generally, any kind of cards designed for some specific data processing task have zero likelihood of ever being used again. If this is such a card, I would love to make use of the components on it to repair other devices I have that could use them.
But if this is a device that is still possibly useful, I wouldn't want to harvest parts from it.
What do you guys think?
It appears to be made by XIONICS INTERNATIONAL LTD 1990. The model is XIP-B (ISA) 3274 G1V1
There's a DIP switch under the top edge of the daughterboard too. The best lead I have is that its may be some kind of "image processor", as Xionics apparently made image processing chips that were used in copiers and other devices. Beyond that, I have no idea. I'm going to attempt to take the daughterboard off but it looked like it was going to be a pain so I didn't tear into it to badly before.
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