Reply 38040 of 56687, by PC Hoarder Patrol
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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2021-02-12, 05:06:Yikes! That's truly insane. You have to have so much disposable income to spend $35,000 on a CRT. I think that sets the record f […]
gex85 wrote on 2021-02-11, 20:46:Arctic wrote on 2021-02-11, 07:09:I dont know where else to post this, I am not gonna bid on this, what do you guys think?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-GDM-FW900-CRT-M … or/164685875289Sooooo, yeah. Looks like this thing just sold for 35k $.
Yikes! That's truly insane. You have to have so much disposable income to spend $35,000 on a CRT. I think that sets the record for the highest price I've seen a PC-related item sell for since I started paying attention to this stuff.
I bet a YouTuber bought it. Linus will have a video about it in a few weeks...
Anyway, I just bought a pretty nifty looking item. I'm really hoping the BIOS is PC compatible, but it is definitely the craziest ISA video card I've ever seen.
falcon64_tiga.jpg
It is a Salient Systems AT3000. It has a Sierra Daytona 64 (only ever seen on PCI cards), coupled with a 175Mhz Ti DAC... and a TMS34020APCM (marked 340x) TIGA processor, on an ISA card with two video outputs.
The only mention I can find of the card is a single line in a .doc file here: http://bigbro.biophys.cornell.edu/internal_in … are_Catalog.doc
Salient Systems Corporation AT3000 TIGA drivers v2.20.2.30 (8/9/96)
Seller says it came from an ADE CR8X system, which Google tells me is a "Wafer Inspection System" from 2002! (Not text searchable, but it is mentioned near the bottom of the 13th page of the PDF).
Anyway... I have no idea what to expect with this, but all of that added up to a "must buy" oddity. I'm hoping that at the very least the Daytona64 is usable, as that is a very late VGA chip for an ISA card. 😀
There are some pics / BIOS dumps? on bitsavers
http://ww.bitsavers.org/pdf/salient/at3000/
A search for AT3000 + Salient links to a number of science / research articles, some of which mention it's use in PC-based systems