Hardest to Find Classic Computers

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Tue Dec 18 14:53:00 2001

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dan Wright wrote:

> speaking of old SGIs...did any of them use microchannel?

Nope. Multibus, VME, GIO, XIO, EISA, PCI.. never MCA.

> The reason I ask is that I have an old (1987 or '88, I think),
> SGI-branded 2-board video adapter that plugs into 2 MCA slots. The
> only other things I can imagine it might be for are an RS/6k, but that
> seems doubtful, or a PS/2 or some such PC thing, which seems even less
> likely...

Guess what? It's for a PS/2.

What you have is an IRISVISION display adapter. Check out Louis Ohland's
"9595 Ardent Tool of Capitalism" page.

ok
r.
Received on Tue Dec 18 2001 - 14:53:00 GMT