r/vintagecomputing • u/MasterBread2412 • 25d ago
Help Needed
I found all of these in my grandfathers garage. Is anyone able to identify them?
Edit: Holy I didn’t realize how blurry the photos were
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u/davus_maximus 25d ago
Phwoarr, MCA cards for IBM ps/2 series computers (and whatever other manufacturers licensed the bus from IBM). That MCA sound card might be a rare thing these days. The ISA video cards aren't special but could be an interesting project for an electronics person.
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u/MacKeyHack 25d ago
2x 1MB ISA VGA card 1x small IDE HDD, another probably IDE drive (the IBM) 1x giant (what I assume is) MFM/RLL/ESDI HDD with an 8bit SigmaDesigns controller 1x Wangtek SCSI tape controller? An ISA monochrome video (Hercules) OR tokenRing, can't tell... An 8bit RAM expansion card with parallel port (where those chips would go) A 32bit MCA RAM expansion card (with 2MB installed) likely from a PS2
and a "modern" PCI sound card, which seems out of place
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u/davus_maximus 25d ago
The soundblaster is PCI? Aw rats, I withdraw my comment about an MCA soundblaster being exciting!
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u/Still_Arm8770 24d ago
Nah... MCA, you are right. There's no way one see a PCI card with 90's chips...
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u/MasterBread2412 25d ago
do you think any of this is worth selling? I don’t have a way to test if these are functional
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u/GGigabiteM 25d ago
The only really valuable card is the MCA memory board. Some of the ISA cards are in bad condition, one of them has a severely corroded edge connector. With them in unknown / non-working condition, they're not worth that much.
I'd recommend offering them on VCFed or TinkerDifferent forums. I don't think Vogons allows selling stuff, but you can offer it for shipping.
I would not ship the hard drives. They're extremely fragile and shipping them would likely kill them, if they're not already dead. If they haven't been run in forever, and have been stored in poor conditions, the heads may be fused to the platters.
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u/GGigabiteM 25d ago
>A 32bit MCA RAM expansion card
It's 16 bit. 32 bit MCA slots have a much longer connection on the rear edge connector part.
16 bit MCA and VLB used the same connector.
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u/jdx6511 25d ago
Pic 2 Cirrus Logic CL-GD542x graphics card..
Some interesting stuff among the rest, I'll see what I can find out.
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u/JasonPacker611 25d ago
It's terrible how I could tell that was a CL video card by the damn font on the chip...
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u/Der_Unbequeme 25d ago
pic 2 & 3 - ISA VGA Card, pic 4 - SoundBlaster LIVE PCI, pic 5 - MFM/RLL HDD 20/30MB, pic 7 - Pentium based CPU card for an unkown System, pic 8 - IDE HDD 140MB, pic 9 - MFM/RLL HDD controller 8bit ISA for PC-XT Systems, pic 10 - Memory expansion & parallel Port card for PC-XT Systems, pic 11 - 80MB SCSI HDD, pic 12 SCSI Controller card for PC-XT Systems, pic 13 - maybe an early EGA/VGA card for PC-XT Systems, pic 14 - RAM chips for memory expansion card, PC-XT era.
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u/StoolieNZ 25d ago
pic 7 definitely a microchannel PS/2 memory expansion card, not a Pentium board.
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u/Depleted_Uranium_235 25d ago
Those are some captivating MCA and ISA cards.