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Anybody know what this beast of a card is?!

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First post, by Woody72

Posted on 2021-04-25, 18:32

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Hi guys, I rescued this from the WEEE waste pile at work and would love to know what it is, Google wasn't much use at all surprisingly. I know the i960 is a RISC based processor and was often used in military applications but other than that it's a bit of a mystery:

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Reply 1 of 8, by pshipkov

Posted on 2021-04-25, 18:42

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Vga with TV tuner, possibly frames capture too.

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Reply 2 of 8, by hyoenmadan

Posted on 2021-04-25, 19:34

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It has Brooktree DAC and Genlock. Most probably it is an analog image acquisition card, probably for some expensive lab or industrial equipment...

Reply 3 of 8, by Unknown_K

Posted on 2021-04-25, 19:36

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Not a TV tuner card, probably some kind of capture card or data processing card.

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Reply 4 of 8, by debs3759

Posted on 2021-04-25, 19:40

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hyoenmadan wrote on 2021-04-25, 19:34:

It has Brooktree DAC and Genlock. Most probably it is an analog image acquisition card, probably for some expensive lab or industrial equipment...

The DAC is used to convert digital signals to analog to output over the VGA port. Other than that, I have no idea either.

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Reply 5 of 8, by Woody72

Posted on 2021-04-25, 20:04

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Cheers guys, I think you're all in the right ballpark. Whatever it is, it was used in the nuclear industry so some kind of image aquisition card makes a lot of sense.

Modern PC: i7-9700KF, 16GB memory, RTX 3060. Proper PC: Pentium 200 MMX, 128MB EDO memory, GeForce2 MX(200).

Reply 6 of 8, by snufkin

Posted on 2021-04-25, 21:13

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Looks like there was a 4C's company registered in postcode SL6 6RZ (written down near the connector), Maidenhead. Wound up in 2016. Can't find anything about what they did.