First post, by Comos
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Hello,
Im looking for the S3 805 chip series example (86C805-P) datasheet, does anyone have please?
Reply 1 of 13, by Horun
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sorry cannot find the full datasheet, only ch.13 the electrical and a text about signals, address mapping, etc
The manual you want is: 86C801/86C805 GUI Accelerators by S3 Incorporated, September 1992
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2018/reading … e/vgadoc/S3.TXT
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Reply 2 of 13, by Anonymous Coward
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It's kind of strange that the datasheet is missing considering how popular the 805 was. I wonder if S3 ever had it floating around on their FTP server?
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Reply 3 of 13, by Comos
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wrote:sorry cannot find the full datasheet, only ch.13 the electrical and a text about signals, address mapping, etc
The manual you want is: 86C801/86C805 GUI Accelerators by S3 Incorporated, September 1992https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2018/reading … e/vgadoc/S3.TXT
Thanks, these dox I have both.Seems the pdf is just a stripped version of the full datasheet.
This seems to be a newer version of the datasheet,that Im looking for.
Reply 4 of 13, by Comos
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wrote:It's kind of strange that the datasheet is missing considering how popular the 805 was. I wonder if S3 ever had it floating around on their FTP server?
Is their FTP server still awailable?
Reply 5 of 13, by Anonymous Coward
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I couldn't find it. But VIA still owns the graphics division of S3, so it's possible they might have it.
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Reply 6 of 13, by Horun
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wrote:Thanks, these dox I have both.Seems the pdf is just a stripped version of the full datasheet.
Any chance you could share the full 1992 datasheet with us ?
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Reply 7 of 13, by Stiletto
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wrote:wrote:Thanks, these dox I have both.Seems the pdf is just a stripped version of the full datasheet.
Any chance you could share the full 1992 datasheet with us ?
Took the words out of my mouth.
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Reply 8 of 13, by Comos
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wrote:wrote:Thanks, these dox I have both.Seems the pdf is just a stripped version of the full datasheet.
Any chance you could share the full 1992 datasheet with us ?
If I had it then yes 😀 Maybe there was a misunderstanding.I meant I have both the documents you posted,where the pdf is stripped down.
The picture of the datasheet I have found here: https://www.von-bassewitz.de/uz/oldcomputers/swap/
I have emailed the owner,if he can make a scan out of it, but dunno if I'll get any reply.
Reply 9 of 13, by Stiletto
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wrote:If I had it then yes :) Maybe there was a misunderstanding.I meant I have both the documents you posted,where the pdf is strippe […]
wrote:wrote:Thanks, these dox I have both.Seems the pdf is just a stripped version of the full datasheet.
Any chance you could share the full 1992 datasheet with us ?
If I had it then yes 😀 Maybe there was a misunderstanding.I meant I have both the documents you posted,where the pdf is stripped down.
The picture of the datasheet I have found here: https://www.von-bassewitz.de/uz/oldcomputers/swap/
I have emailed the owner,if he can make a scan out of it, but dunno if I'll get any reply.
Drat. Hope they answer and good luck! Maybe if they won't scan it, maybe they will sell it to you?
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Reply 10 of 13, by Comos
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wrote:Drat. Hope they answer and good luck! Maybe if they won't scan it, maybe they will sell it to you?
I got a reply this morning, that he should still have the datasheet remembering not giving them away,although he can't find them now.So I'll have to wait if he has luck.
Reply 11 of 13, by Comos
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Meanwhile I got in touch with VIA to request datasheets from several S3 GPU's which can't be found online, but they can't find anything anymore since it's EOL more than 20 years 🙁
Reply 12 of 13, by Roman555
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There was an intersting resource that stopped working. S3 is listed too.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080128135933/htt … m/sensors/docs/
There's the owner of http://mds.gotdns.com in LinkedIn. So you may ask him and maybe he'll help.
P.S. Obviously I don't know whether S3 805 chip datasheet was there or not.
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Reply 13 of 13, by Comos
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Roman555 wrote on 2020-05-21, 19:06:There was an intersting resource that stopped working. S3 is listed too. http://web.archive.org/web/20080128135933/htt … m/senso […]
There was an intersting resource that stopped working. S3 is listed too.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080128135933/htt … m/sensors/docs/
There's the owner of http://mds.gotdns.com in LinkedIn. So you may ask him and maybe he'll help.P.S. Obviously I don't know whether S3 805 chip datasheet was there or not.
How can I find him on LinkedIn?