derSammler wrote:

No, they get removed for their scrap value. Also, when recycling such cards, you have to remove them anyway, just like fans, heatsinks, and other foreign matter.

This is true. I have also seen listing where they say they can fit more in a box if they remove the brackets... and this makes sense as well.

The seller messaged me back pretty quickly and said that the brackets had already been sent to the metal recycler. Oh well.

Anybody recognize this video card? I have it on the way with a few other cards.

Yes, the pictures are absolutely horrible, but from what I can gather from the seller and from guessing, the silsckreen above the heatsinks says Appian Graphics.
I am unable to find any Appian Graphics card pictures that look like this card or any other video cards that look like this. Maybe my google-fu has finally failed me, but I kinda doubt it.

The other information on the card, per the seller is:
HINT
HB1-SE33P
PCI BRIDGE
B 0049

ETMA 30759 (this is another indication that it is an Appian Graphics card, but this model number seems to not exist)
S/N 0219

I am guessing the outputs are a couple of DMS-59, but am really curious as to the amount of RAM and the graphics chips.

EDIT: Found it. It is an Appian Graphics AppianX (AGX1)
http://vgamuseum.ru/gpu/3dlabs/appian-appianx-agx1/

The specs from different places are all over the place. The silicon image chips indicate that it supports 4 monitors and another place on the same page shows a different part number that says only two monitors. Maybe there were two different versions of the card.

The graphics chips use licensed 3dLabs Permedia tech.

There is also an S-Video input.

EDIT2: Another really interesting thing I found out when doing research is that Appian was Aquired by Colorgraphic in 2001, and the same year ATI aquired Hydravision as well as the Hydravision team from Appian... hello virtual desktops for ATI cards. I never knew that it was an aquired and not in-house technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Graphics

Celebrating 20 years of Windows 98...

"That must be uh... That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet." - Bill Gates after the BSOD during the Windows 98 presentation.

blurks wrote:

Celebrating 20 years of Windows 98...

And just think, it's 88 versions more advanced than Windows 10.

Still really far away from Windows 2000 though

And 90 versions more advanced than Windows 8, 91 versions more advanced than Windows 7, and 89.9 versions more advanced than Windows 8.1

bjwil1991 wrote:

And 90 versions more advanced than Windows 8, 91 versions more advanced than Windows 7, and 89.9 versions more advanced than Windows 8.1

We could do this with ATI/AMD and Nvidia video card model numbers as well.

cyclone3d wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

And 90 versions more advanced than Windows 8, 91 versions more advanced than Windows 7, and 89.9 versions more advanced than Windows 8.1

We could do this with ATI/AMD and Nvidia video card model numbers as well.

Then Creative wins with their EMU10k 😉

finally got my first EISA VGA card S3 928 by Miro

dionb wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

And 90 versions more advanced than Windows 8, 91 versions more advanced than Windows 7, and 89.9 versions more advanced than Windows 8.1

We could do this with ATI/AMD and Nvidia video card model numbers as well.

Then Creative wins with their EMU10k 😉

Let us not forget about the most powerful operating system never developed. Hamilton 95.

For those too young to remember this great event a small wiki on it: http://wikibin.org/articles/hamilton-95.html

Got a few things today:

Quantum3D Obsidian2 SLI2
Two Voodoo 2 12MB on one PCI card
It comes with Medusa Cable

ARK 1000PV - my favorite DOS graphic card producer
one of fastest dos cards

Blue SDRAM PC133 128MB
(got 4 of theese)
For my blue build on GA-BX2000PV

chose007 wrote:

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finally got my first EISA VGA card S3 928 by Miro

Nice card. Very similar to the ELSA Winner 2000, but without extra ISA interface. I kind of wish I hadn't traded mine away.

Batyra wrote:

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Got a few things today:

Quantum3D Obsidian2 SLI2
Two Voodoo 2 12MB on one PCI card
It comes with Medusa Cable

Batyra_Obsidian2SLI.jpg

The hell where did you find this Quantum 3D...
I bet you did pay a lot for it, or maybe you got extremely lucky and the owner did not have a clue what this is..

A fellow vogoner help me to find seller. Owner new what he is selling but the price was atractive, so I didn't event thought twice.
It will be a part for my win98 buld. as I needed one PCI slot for network card... I also needed SLI - so this was the best way... now 3PCI are full and 4ISA are used too.

Wow, took a month to be processed by UK Customs, but it's finally here

My 286 Motherboard, a BIOSTAR MB-1216VE

The chipset, with 286-16 and 287-6 fitted

I'm thinking about it, I have a 286-25, not sure the 287-6 or the rest of the board components would work with it

This has to be my poorest attempt at a closeup, it's supposed to be the 287-6

The 286 ISA BIOS

Already swapped out the 1MB of RAM for 4MB, but this may be overkill, I've no other components to work with this board yet, so it's a future project.

The 287 should be no problem, as you can fit a separate quartz oscillator for it. No idea about the chipset, though. I have that board as well, but without "VE". Mine has a HT12 instead of that VLSI chip.

I'd remove the NiCd battery, if I were you. Those things can destroy a motherboard from 0 to 10ns.

If you want to run Harris 25 at 25MHz you will have to replace the clock oscillator for 50MHz one. Now 32MHz is installed. Maybe put a socket first so you can swap them as you wish.

Spotted an offer I couldn't refuse:

An HP T5500 thin client with a Transmeta TM5800 733MHz Crusoe CPU.

Originally this thing ran WinCE, but it seems you can get it to boot Linux as well. Added bonus: despite somewhat odd PCI slot placement this is basically an mITX board, so I can easily transfer to another case if I so desire.