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Anyone know what these are and what they're for? I removed them from a tower that I believe was being used as a server. Thank you.

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Reply 1 of 6, by tayyare

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Serial port multipliers for dumb terminals?

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 3 of 6, by retardware

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If you want identification, provide photos of usable quality.

Connector is 48 pin, there is a processor with RAM, could be an early SCSI RAID controller.

Reply 4 of 6, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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Like @tayyare, I'm guessing port multiplier (or maybe some basic multi-function role) - I can recognise the large socketed chips top-left as IDT 79R5000 series RISC microprocessors if that helps any.

Reply 5 of 6, by mdog69

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Any chance of a higher resolution picture of each individual card?
Unless you provide a picture or series of pictures where you can read the board markings or the devices on the board, there's almost no chance of identifying them.

Reply 6 of 6, by tensi0n

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tayyare wrote:

Serial port multipliers for dumb terminals?

Nailed it.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_tr … iboard+30001464

They are both made by DIGIBOARD.

Sorry for the bad photos. I definitely wasn't thinking that I should have posted higher quality ones when I posted them. I ended up finding in small print on the back of one of the cards "Digi Board" which I didn't notice the first time around.