First post, by Ash515253
Hello all,
I just joined here, hope this is the right place for a post.
I have gone a little crazy lately buying up old machines and components from my youth and playing old DOS and windows games.
I noted the above system on facebook marketplace so I went to pick it up for £20..
Getting it home and its clear that I was definitely the first to open it, it seems by the complete lack of any dust whatsoever that I may be the first to even turn the thing on.
I had a little look inside and weirdly, the AGP slot was vacant, there is instead a 'video card' in one of the PCI slots. Powering on it gave a boot menu, I could choose between XP Home or Professional. Both seem to be new installs, nothing extra on there... not even bloatware. The Audio driver is missing so perhaps it has been used and a fresh install of windows added (or two)
Anywhoo the video card identified as a SavageMX 16Mb. Cool I thought, I have an older K6-II 500 without an AGP slot, this would be a nice little upgrade.
The card looked a bit weird though and it turns out, it's actually a CORECO iMAGING OC-B2P0-MV000 image acquisition card (Frame Grabber). I have not heard of a frame grabber before, a look online and it seems it could be valuable.
So my questions to the community:
Could this card really be valuable? I would love to sell the thing and fund more old computer gear.. an old slot 1 Pentium maybe, or at least a good AGP card for this new machine here.
Also, can any nerdy-fun be had with a Frame Grabber? I read the wiki article on it but it doesn't really paint much of a picture about what type of business would use this.
There are some ports on the actual PCB, what would you plug into there?
Also, guesses about how this immaculate old machine managed to survive unmolested and unused after all this time are welcome, perhaps some sort of sanitised lab environment has kept the dust away?
Thanks all, very strange to be typing onto a message board after so long!
my website: https://ashsthingsandstuff.co.uk/