Just bought three lovely ISA cards for my 386 boards, two are VGA cards the first one is a bit of an enigma as its a STB 450 VGA/IO card but im at a loss for more info on it. All three have been tested and work just fine including the IO card.

Need more info on this card, preferably a manual if I can find one.

Nice card that supports VGA, EGA, CGA, MGA and Hercules

Similar to the above card but also supports Super VGA modes. - Weirdly this card has its Crystals as ICs .. not cans.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 07:56:

Just bought three lovely ISA cards for my 386 boards, two are VGA cards the last one is a bit of an enigma as its a VGA/IO card […]
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Just bought three lovely ISA cards for my 386 boards, two are VGA cards the last one is a bit of an enigma as its a VGA/IO card but im at a loss for more info on it. All three have been tested and work just fine including the IO card.

STB 450 Combo VGA IO card.jpg
Need more info on this card, preferably a manual if I can find one.

Octek EVGA-16 2.3.jpg
Nice card that supports VGA, EGA, CGA, MGA and Hercules

WD PARADISE PVGA 1A.jpg
Similar to the above card but also supports Super VGA modes.

Lol you bugger. I was typing in my PayPal password and you bought them!

zuldan wrote on 2024-03-31, 07:59:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 07:56:

Just bought three lovely ISA cards for my 386 boards, two are VGA cards the last one is a bit of an enigma as its a VGA/IO card […]
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Just bought three lovely ISA cards for my 386 boards, two are VGA cards the last one is a bit of an enigma as its a VGA/IO card but im at a loss for more info on it. All three have been tested and work just fine including the IO card.

STB 450 Combo VGA IO card.jpg
Need more info on this card, preferably a manual if I can find one.

Octek EVGA-16 2.3.jpg
Nice card that supports VGA, EGA, CGA, MGA and Hercules

WD PARADISE PVGA 1A.jpg
Similar to the above card but also supports Super VGA modes.

Lol you bugger. I was typing in my PayPal password and you bought them!

...is it wrong that my Paypal doesn't require a password for one click purchases 😜 (Sadly have been sniped far to many times due to passwords and authenticators)

Also I left the ATI and two CL VLB cards ...I cant use VLB and ATI doesn't interest me 😁

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:01:

zuldan wrote on 2024-03-31, 07:59:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 07:56:

Just bought three lovely ISA cards for my 386 boards, two are VGA cards the last one is a bit of an enigma as its a VGA/IO card […]
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Just bought three lovely ISA cards for my 386 boards, two are VGA cards the last one is a bit of an enigma as its a VGA/IO card but im at a loss for more info on it. All three have been tested and work just fine including the IO card.

STB 450 Combo VGA IO card.jpg
Need more info on this card, preferably a manual if I can find one.

Octek EVGA-16 2.3.jpg
Nice card that supports VGA, EGA, CGA, MGA and Hercules

WD PARADISE PVGA 1A.jpg
Similar to the above card but also supports Super VGA modes.

Lol you bugger. I was typing in my PayPal password and you bought them!

...is it wrong that my Paypal doesn't require a password for one click purchases 😜 (Sadly have been sniped far to many times due to passwords and authenticators)

Also I left the ATI and two CL VLB cards ...I cant use VLB and ATI doesn't interest me 😁

That WD Paradise is the fastest XT graphics card. It was a good buy.

zuldan wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:04:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:01:

zuldan wrote on 2024-03-31, 07:59:

Lol you bugger. I was typing in my PayPal password and you bought them!

...is it wrong that my Paypal doesn't require a password for one click purchases 😜 (Sadly have been sniped far to many times due to passwords and authenticators)

Also I left the ATI and two CL VLB cards ...I cant use VLB and ATI doesn't interest me 😁

That WD Paradise is the fastest XT graphics card. It was a good buy.

Nods ...cant believe that price, the 450 IO card is and odd one too been googling it to death and nada so far I wonder if it is a clone card and I should look there.

Might source some memory chips and upgrade the Paradise to 1meg.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:10:

Nods ...cant believe that price, the 450 IO card is and odd one too been googling it to death and nada so far I wonder if it is a clone card and I should look there.

Might source some memory chips and upgrade the Paradise to 1meg.

Yes that was a good one too. I got the IO card with the led pins for the hard drive. Most 386 boards don’t have pins for HD activity.

I got a WD paradise with 1mb. Very lucky to get it.

zuldan wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:32:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:10:

Nods ...cant believe that price, the 450 IO card is and odd one too been googling it to death and nada so far I wonder if it is a clone card and I should look there.

Might source some memory chips and upgrade the Paradise to 1meg.

Yes that was a good one too. I got the IO card with the led pins for the hard drive. Most 386 boards don’t have pins for HD activity.

I got a WD paradise with 1mb. Very lucky to get it.

Can you take a close up pic of the memory ICs ?

Just so I have an idea, I think it takes 128x8

I just checked it again. It has 512kb. I must be thinking of another ISA card. Here is the model Western Digital Paradise NT-200B 512KB (WDC90C00-JK). I’ll still get a picture to compare.

If you need photos of the ISA video cards, with WD chips, I have two on the bench, I use one for those PCs that don't show anything on the screen using the PCI, while with ISA there is the BIOS screen, the other is waiting for the end of the work, I have some 486 ISA, which sooner or later I will fix at least one.

PC@LIVE wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:55:

If you need photos of the ISA video cards, with WD chips, I have two on the bench, I use one for those PCs that don't show anything on the screen using the PCI, while with ISA there is the BIOS screen, the other is waiting for the end of the work, I have some 486 ISA, which sooner or later I will fix at least one.

Hmm I may have to socket the existing soldered IC's so I can switch them all for 70ns ICs.

That STB VGA/IO card doesn't exist anywhere on Google ..so weird.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:57:

PC@LIVE wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:55:

If you need photos of the ISA video cards, with WD chips, I have two on the bench, I use one for those PCs that don't show anything on the screen using the PCI, while with ISA there is the BIOS screen, the other is waiting for the end of the work, I have some 486 ISA, which sooner or later I will fix at least one.

Hmm I may have to socket the existing soldered IC's so I can switch them all for 70ns ICs.

That STB VGA/IO card doesn't exist anywhere on Google ..so weird.

They advised me to replace all the 70 ns chips with other identical ones but 45 ns, at the moment I have not looked for these 45 ns chips, because I don't have a working 486 ISA, in this way the 70 ns chips that I will remove, I will be able to reuse them on other VGAs, to expand the RAM to 1 MB, in the photo I have the NT-200B with a free row, but they need chips with a lower capacity, I don't think it is possible to go up to 1 MB.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:57:

PC@LIVE wrote on 2024-03-31, 08:55:

If you need photos of the ISA video cards, with WD chips, I have two on the bench, I use one for those PCs that don't show anything on the screen using the PCI, while with ISA there is the BIOS screen, the other is waiting for the end of the work, I have some 486 ISA, which sooner or later I will fix at least one.

Hmm I may have to socket the existing soldered IC's so I can switch them all for 70ns ICs.

That STB VGA/IO card doesn't exist anywhere on Google ..so weird.

Bit more info on your mystery card - seems to have been called the Quick VGA (fccid at https://fccid.io/EKSUSA450COMBO ). I've attached a short piece on it from BYTE and a copy of the CHIPS Windows 3.x driver from the STB archive.

holy heck, even that much is great to see, I spent 2 hours searching and nada, thanks !

Looks like it supports a mouse, I wonder if its a normal serial connector of if it uses the PS2 port type on the card. (Bus mouse IIRC)

Are there any other drivers for it in the STB archive ? like DOS and VGA utils ?

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 11:57:

Are there any other drivers for it in the STB archive ? like DOS and VGA utils ?

Sadly no 😀 , that's your lot as far as the STB archive goes, though I did find an old bbs listing of what was available back in the day (maybe worth further searches by filename, or perhaps someone has them hiding in personal archives!). Datasheet for the 450 is still up at https://www.dosdays.co.uk/media/c_and_t/82C45 … roller_1993.pdf

450DOC.ZIP 47987 06-01-92 QuickVGA DRIVERS DOCUMENTATION
450DISK1.ZIP STORED OFF-LINE QuickVGA DRIVERS DISK 1
450DISK2.ZIP 447969 09-24-92 QuickVGA DRIVERS DISK 2

Either get all of the above for QuickVGA disks, OR...
get one or more of the following which is the SAME DRIVERS
as found in the DISK version above!

450ACAD.ZIP 136987 06-01-92 QuickVGA AutoCAD 9, 10, and 11 ADI drvs
450CDKEY.ZIP 12163 06-01-92 QuickVGA CADKey drvs
450CDVNC.ZIP 18236 06-01-92 QuickVGA CADvance drvs
450FW3.ZIP 9887 06-01-92 QuickVGA FrameWork 3 drvs
450GEM3.ZIP 36896 06-01-92 QuickVGA GEM 3 drvs
450GENCD.ZIP 6641 06-01-92 QuickVGA Generic CADD level 3 drvs
450LOTUS.ZIP 7220 06-01-92 QuickVGA Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony drvs
450OS2PM.ZIP 194284 06-01-92 QuickVGA OS/2 1.21 and 1.3 PM drvs
450SCOOD.ZIP 4754 06-01-92 QuickVGA SCO Unix Open DeskTop Drvs
450SETUP.ZIP 24089 06-01-92 QuickVGA SETUP pgm (must build dsks to use)
450UTIL.ZIP 30757 06-01-92 QuickVGA Utilities
450VCAD.ZIP 26160 06-01-92 QuickVGA VersaCAD drvs
450VESA.ZIP 29855 06-01-92 QuickVGA VESA utilities/drivers
450WIN3X.ZIP 423297 06-01-92 QuickVGA Windows 3.x drvs
450WORD5.ZIP 13442 06-01-92 QuickVGA MS-Word 5.0 drvs
450WRD55.ZIP 15356 06-01-92 QuickVGA MS-Word 5.5 drvs
450WP50.ZIP 6051 06-01-92 QuickVGA WordPerfect 5.0 drvs
450WP51.ZIP 10808 06-01-92 QuickVGA WordPerfect 5.1 drvs

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2024-03-31, 13:54:

Sadly no :) , that's your lot as far as the STB archive goes, though I did find an old bbs listing of what was available back in […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-31, 11:57:

Are there any other drivers for it in the STB archive ? like DOS and VGA utils ?

Sadly no 😀 , that's your lot as far as the STB archive goes, though I did find an old bbs listing of what was available back in the day (maybe worth further searches by filename, or perhaps someone has them hiding in personal archives!). Datasheet for the 450 is still up at https://www.dosdays.co.uk/media/c_and_t/82C45 … roller_1993.pdf

450DOC.ZIP 47987 06-01-92 QuickVGA DRIVERS DOCUMENTATION
450DISK1.ZIP STORED OFF-LINE QuickVGA DRIVERS DISK 1
450DISK2.ZIP 447969 09-24-92 QuickVGA DRIVERS DISK 2

Either get all of the above for QuickVGA disks, OR...
get one or more of the following which is the SAME DRIVERS
as found in the DISK version above!

450ACAD.ZIP 136987 06-01-92 QuickVGA AutoCAD 9, 10, and 11 ADI drvs
450CDKEY.ZIP 12163 06-01-92 QuickVGA CADKey drvs
450CDVNC.ZIP 18236 06-01-92 QuickVGA CADvance drvs
450FW3.ZIP 9887 06-01-92 QuickVGA FrameWork 3 drvs
450GEM3.ZIP 36896 06-01-92 QuickVGA GEM 3 drvs
450GENCD.ZIP 6641 06-01-92 QuickVGA Generic CADD level 3 drvs
450LOTUS.ZIP 7220 06-01-92 QuickVGA Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony drvs
450OS2PM.ZIP 194284 06-01-92 QuickVGA OS/2 1.21 and 1.3 PM drvs
450SCOOD.ZIP 4754 06-01-92 QuickVGA SCO Unix Open DeskTop Drvs
450SETUP.ZIP 24089 06-01-92 QuickVGA SETUP pgm (must build dsks to use)
450UTIL.ZIP 30757 06-01-92 QuickVGA Utilities
450VCAD.ZIP 26160 06-01-92 QuickVGA VersaCAD drvs
450VESA.ZIP 29855 06-01-92 QuickVGA VESA utilities/drivers
450WIN3X.ZIP 423297 06-01-92 QuickVGA Windows 3.x drvs
450WORD5.ZIP 13442 06-01-92 QuickVGA MS-Word 5.0 drvs
450WRD55.ZIP 15356 06-01-92 QuickVGA MS-Word 5.5 drvs
450WP50.ZIP 6051 06-01-92 QuickVGA WordPerfect 5.0 drvs
450WP51.ZIP 10808 06-01-92 QuickVGA WordPerfect 5.1 drvs

Perhaps the files attached to this post contains the files PC Hoarder Patrol pasted. NJRoadFan is a member here too incase you don't want to create an account to download it. https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/power … 065/post-331047

Expanded the production of fastening strips. Check it out.

1. ESS 3 socket or Creative Vibra
2. Gravis Ultrasound PnP
3. Voodoo 4 -5 (L-series)
4. Voodoo 2 STB System
5. Voodoo 1-2 Diamond
6. SB Creative 16-32-64
7. AWE64 Gold
8. Creative SB 16 - pro
9. ESS Gold 16
10. ESS Edison
11. Voodoo Rush
12. ESS 4 socket
13. PicoGUS
14. Adlib New
15. Tekram DC-680
16. Voodoo 3 STB System
17. Diamond Monster MX300
18. Tekram DC-690
19. Voodoo Banshee Diamond
20. Gravis Ultrasound Classic, MAX 1.8

Jccwu wrote on 2024-03-31, 16:55:

Expanded the production of fastening strips. Check it out.

I need to make some slot covers. What program are you designing these in, are you doing these just by hand or is someone doing the work for you?

PCBWay can do sheet metal but I have never got them to do a sheet metal project for me.

I’ve been trying to score a 771 motherboard for quite some time now without success when I realized that it was the wrong strategy and I should’ve looked at complete workstations instead. Got this dual Xeon Dell Precision 690. What an absolute monster!
Here it is next to it’s little brother, a 1366 Dell Precision T5500.

Bought a Seagate ST-296N for much cheaper than they usually go for... Only for it to arrive completely trashed.

First signs of troubles came up when I powered the drive up (horrible screaching noise), so I popped the cover up and sure enough, the uppermost platter's heads got sheared off the actuator arm!

When I received the package, the box was torn apart, and the drive wrapped in a thick layer of bubble wrap... I suppose that had to play a part.

Oh well, I mainly wanted one of these for the noise... Interestingly, even though it has two missing heads it seems to be still passing the seek test, maybe this drive isn't quite ready to call it quits?