Hello everybody! this is my first post on here, I have recently gotten into old hardware a bit and am excited to be a vogons member.

I have a bit of an odd one to start it off, it will take some explanation so bear with me.

Yesterday I picked up this formerly unknown blue box with a bunch of connectors on the front, pictures attached for context. At first I intended to keep the thing just for the beautiful case that it is in, and get rid of the guts. However upon exploring the electronics inside and doing some research I realized that what I had was very unique, rare, and at the same time very useless at the moment. It turns out that this device was an image processor intended to be used at traffic intersections, Econolite specializes in traffic control systems. What it would do is analyze images from up to four cameras and use software to detect the presence of vehicles in certain places set by the user.

Here is the interesting thing, this device has an entire 486 computer inside of it, under the large black heatsink is an intel i486sx 33MHz CPU and next to it is a standard Opti chipset that some of you may even recognize, along with an I/O controller that supports a keyboard (there is even a 2-pin header for it). The chipset IC had a Phoenix BIOS sticker stuck to it. Additionally, this thing has a few megabytes of flash storage split into sections labeled drive A:, C:, and D:. The other cards are filled with presumably rather expensive Altera FPGAs for 1994.

I spent a few hours yesterday hooking thigs up to it, and here is what I achieved. The camera inputs are BNC that appear to be just standard composite video, same with the one output connector. I was able to get the device to pass through a video signal by attaching it to an old security camera I have, and selecting the corresponding channel on the far left selector switch, but that is about all I have been able to do. There is a DB-9 labeled com-1, which is wired to a serial transceiver chip, so I believe that that is just RS-232, however there does not seem to be any activity on it. The section on the front panel labeled EIM I think was sued for communication with other traffic signal equipment, so I didn't bother messing with it (I removed the connectors).

So, now that you are probably tired of reading, do you have any ideas of what I could do with this thing? There are a couple of Microsoft stickers on the CPU board, could there be some from of DOS running on here? Any information or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Note: There are more pictures, and I can upload more, I was limited to 5 attachments.