philscomputerlab wrote:Jealous of that recycling centre. What a nice haul.
Thanks. PCI matrox boards are pretty hard to come in my country. They never sold many because they were VERY expensive, so the're pretty rare (here anyway). This was a lucky find indeed. Personally, I'm not too fond of early matrox cards because of poor compatibility with some dos games, but I won't be using these in dos gaming machines (I use S3 Virge cards in those). Image quality at 1280x1024 is superb on the one Millennium 2 I got to test, so I'll use it alongside a pair of voodoo 2 cards in a slot 1 pentium 3 rig.
Believe it or not, Virge cards are not easy to come by either. Retailers here sold the Trio64 alongside the Virge, so people either went for that or for cheaper Cirrus Logic or Trident cards. I know lots of people who back in the day bought a dirt cheap trident card so that they could afford a Voodoo for 3D - and if I would have had the choice, I would have done the same.
They also still sold 486 and 586 machines when the pentium MMX and even the pentium 2 were out - the old socket 3 rigs were enough for office work.
Scali wrote:kanecvr wrote:Thanks for the links! Too bad I don't have the add-on cables. Would have been fun to play with it.
The pinout for the 15-pin connector can be found here: http://www.murc.ws/showthread.php?39623-Rainb … mation-enclosed
It shouldn't be too difficult to rig up a cable for composite and Y/C video input for it.
Looks pretty simple indeed. I'll pick up the parts on my next visit to an electronics parts store and give it a shot.
