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First post, by KingPing

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I bought this ISA card, it seems to have 2 SCSI 50 pin ports and lots of ram... no idea what it is for.. 😕

https://imgur.com/a/JaomZ

https://imgur.com/a/XErK4

https://imgur.com/a/N7B70

Reply 1 of 5, by Jade Falcon

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my guess off the top of my head, its some sort of old raid card with a lot of ram for cache or a scsi/cache combo card.

Reply 2 of 5, by BeginnerGuy

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Jade Falcon wrote:

my guess off the top of my head, its some sort of old raid card with a lot of ram for cache or a scsi/cache combo card.

Pretty sure they were called Caching Disk Controllers, I vaguely remember a card like that in my fathers 386 machine in the early 1990s, around 2mb cache on his, not sure if it was IDE or SCSI

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Reply 3 of 5, by luckybob

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it's not scsi.

it's going to be an expanded memory board for some proprietary computer. or a memory board for some neighboring isa card.

with 72 pin simms, I'd guess the latter.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Reply 4 of 5, by Anonymous Coward

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It's probably for a server. It's a memory buffer of some kind, and I would guess it's related to networking or printing.

"Will the highways on the internets become more few?" -Gee Dubya
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Reply 5 of 5, by Jade Falcon

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luckybob wrote:

it's not scsi.

it's going to be an expanded memory board for some proprietary computer. or a memory board for some neighboring isa card.

with 72 pin simms, I'd guess the latter.

I thought those ports looked fishy