It's an 8bit ISA that was found brand new and still packaged, any help is appreciated.
I have more pictures but the og post is limited to 5.
Some more pictures.
I spy standard serial and parallel ports with additional data lines, so I'd hazard a guess at an instrument control card with additional GPIO.
Is there any way of identifying the brand/model of this card then? I attempted hardware ID but I was using NET BSD and it didn't show, Im planning on trying windows 2000 as a last resort but I've a feeling it won't work.
This kind of stuff is practically useless outside of lab context.
There is always some proprietary software connected with it, which is hard to impossible to find.
But as parts donator its sometimes good imho.
Im not worried about value or usefulness, I just want to know what it is 🙁
Haven't seen a Beckman Instruments card in YEARS! Nice find!
Oh damn, thank you Alaric, I'll start looking through their cards to see if I can find a match. Can I ask how you figured it out?
wrote:Oh damn, thank you Alaric, I'll start looking through their cards to see if I can find a match. Can I ask how you figured it out?
Beckman Instruments is now Beckman Coulter, and people working in scientific labs, medical and veterinary labs, and the like, will have seen them in the wild. The card looked familiar already (I've seen similar connecting blood analysis devices to a computer), but you posted a very clear picture of the markings, such as BD 240274. Not that hard to Google such a string and find matches.
Thats embarassing, I searched up P/W BD 240274 and got nothing, I never thought to just do BD 240274. Sorry for having half a braincell Alaric, but thank you VERY much for the help.
wrote:thank you VERY much for the help.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
