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Looking for information on a dual-PCI video card - Intergraph Computer Systems SMT219

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First post, by scruit

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A friend gave me an old specalist video card that is TWO full-length PC card sisteret together as a single unit. Both cards has a PCI connector and it sits nicely in two adjacent PCI slots.

It has an external S-Video port and a VGA port. The only apparent connector is a multi-pin proprietry connector I have never seen before.

It's labelled "Intergraph Computer Systems SMT219", and I can find no information about it at all.

Anyone heard of these, or know of a good place to look up rare cards from around 1995 (based upon IC datecodes)

https://imgur.com/a/wVAQXQN

Running this in my PII PC in place of the current Oak card gives me the "no video card" beep codes. I only have 2 spare slots on that machine so I can't try it as a "second" video card. I'll have to put together one of my other motherboards to test it like that.

Reply 2 of 6, by Horun

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The best I could come up with is that it was in a GLZ2 system based on an obscure post stating: PCI Intergraph GLZ2 (M)SMT219 ???? ohne VGA
So searching leads here: http://web.archive.org/web/20010123213900/htt … ph.com/sysdocs/
and near bottom is link for docs for GLZ2. Best I could come up with and helps not much....
imi is correct is for a specialized workstation for CAD/CAM and works in specific motherboards and supported by only certain OS...afaik...

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 4 of 6, by snufkin

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GLZ2 looks right:
https://www.okqubit.net/boards/intergraph.html

Google translate for the SMT219 entry:

GLZ2 is a PCI-based board set consisting of a Rasterization Accelerator and a Frame Buffer, with Gouraud shading, Antialiased vectors, Z buffer and other functions [3] . There was a review in the September 1995 issue of the magazine Byte, and it was sold in the form of being installed in the TDZ series workstations such as the TDZ-40 (Dual Pentium-100), and the GLZ1 and external GLZ6 were compatible resolutions and memory capacities. A variation of [6] .

3. Intergraph Computer Systems: GLZ2 Hardware User's Guide. DHA012320.EXE. November 1995.
6. Greg Loveria: 3-D graphics go zoom. Byte Magazine. Vol. 20 Num. 9. pp.243–244. September 1995.

[edit to add link to the Byte review: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-199 … e/n268/mode/1up ]

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