First post, by Malvineous
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I picked up an old industrial PC recently and finally got around to opening it up and having a look at it. Here are the photos. As well as a 486DX/33 CPU board, there are a number of ISA cards I have never seen before, so I'm wondering whether anyone knows anything about them?
I was told the machine came from an Australian government-funded radio station, so I imagine the boards have something to do with...well...whatever it is that they used computers for in radio stations back in the 90s. Controlling CD players? Handling incoming voice calls? I'm not sure.
There was no storage device supplied so I can't boot it and see what it does, but for the most part the boards don't seem that complex.
I still find it amazing that there are professionally mass-produced ISA cards that are decades old, yet still I've never seen mention of them anywhere before.
Any ideas what the cards do or what they might have been used for?