Hello all,
I just picked up this old sound card that I can't seem to find any information on.
Can anyone identify this sound card or provide some insight.
https://i.postimg.cc/5y9KdZjw/Vibra-16-S-YMF2 … -Connection.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/L6DY8G5J/Vibra-16-S-YMF2 … th-Din-View.jpg
Thank you
Its name's on the card:
S26361-d879-v1
That is a Siemens(-Nixdorf) product ID
Googling it comes up with this part list:
https://dein-ersatzteil.de/file/get/10174204382
It's just "Soundcard" according to this, but the list shows it comes from a Siemens FD201M6
There should be pics of the system here, but you need to register to see them (which I'm not prepared to do):
https://www.cubeuser.de/showthread.php?t=2629
Here's another link with specs of the system, a 486DX4-100 apparently.
http://www.cc-seller.de/CC-Archiv/bc-aktuell/ … fs-mp-4_96.html
This tells us it was a PC-TV all-in-one with 40cm CRT. That explains the odd form factor. What it doesn't explain is what an ISA CT2504 chip is doing on what looks like a PCI card. I'm also intrigued about the 5-pin connector at the top of your first pic, which looks suspiciously like SB-Link.
Yeah I saw the Seimens list and also saw it was used in some Fujitsu branded Seimens Pentiums too but not much else.
One good thing is it does have a Yamaha OPL chip but is for a OEM proprietary case.
My guess is one of the Vibra software drivers should work.
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
Wouldn't be so sure of that. Either that PCI-looking connector isn't PCI but ISA with different connector (in which case you specifically need the s26361-d912-b50 motherboard to use it), or it really is a PCI card, in which case there's some PCI to ISA bridge logic in there that would need to be supported by the driver, which would definitely differ from regular ISA Vibra stuff. Tbh there's just not enough on the card for that, so I think it's the first case: ISA bus on a PCI-type connector.
@dionb & @Horun Great! Thanks everyone that at least gives me a clue where this thing came from. It seemed rather unique. I mean it isn't very often that I see Midi Din Connectors and 2x ports on any vintage sound cards.
Does anyone know of any other vintage sound cards that have Midi Din Connectors on an internal sound card?
Is there any possibility of using an adapter to plug this into pci? The connector isn't a 16x pci connector I tried fitting it. It is something else.
Thanks for the information! Grazie!
I can see why Vogons is the place to be for vintage sound cards.
