Hardest to Find Classic Computers

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Tue Dec 18 20:08:11 2001

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:

> 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.

Indeed.

> > 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.

Actually, the card was designed to do CAD on the first generation of
RS/6000's. PS/2 support was added (barely) as an afterthought.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Tue Dec 18 2001 - 20:08:11 GMT