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Worth buying a 386?

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Reply 22 of 27, by Skyscraper

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keropi wrote:

^ specialized card for specialized equipment/use , it has no value other than it's original purpose which is something that no home user will ever care about or have a way to use 🤣

It has some useful parts though. Some solid caps, some dip-switches and what looks like memory that could fit some old video cards. 😀

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Reply 23 of 27, by Nic-93

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To be honest, im not sure if its worth breaking it out for part's, its comeing from a office.

Reply 24 of 27, by Skyscraper

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Your strange ISA card seems to be a frame grabber.

Here is a link to a similar card but not the exact same model, your seems more fancy.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Data-Translation-DT … bwAAOxyni9TE2Sw

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Reply 25 of 27, by Nic-93

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a frame grabber? like as in to capture movie's?

Reply 26 of 27, by Skyscraper

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Nic-93 wrote:

a frame grabber? like as in to capture movie's?

That is at least what the linked card is beeing sold as.

New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
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Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 27 of 27, by Nic-93

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i proberly need to explore the card a bit when i acquire the computer, but..it has no cd-rom drive, how could i transfer file's over to it?
i hope it has network as option.