The South A few old cards, PCI Capture, VLB Orchid and EISA SCSI w/ Cache card

[Benson86]

Delivery Options

In Country Shipping or Local Pickup

Have a few cards I dont need anymore, willing to sell individually but if someone want them all that would be awesome shot me an offer! Shipping anywhere in the US would be like $10 but outside of the US would be on the buyer im not an international shipping expert.

Card 1: VLB Orchid 9000 card. Works great, just dont need it as I don't do allot windows with my 486. $75

Card 2: Adaptek SCSI Controller card with a 4 stick ram cache, 4mb installed. Tested the ram and tested good. I dont know a ton about this one, never seen on quite like it before. Think its worth around $100?

Card 2: PCI capture card, I have no idea how to price this cause I know nothing about it. Not even sure how to test it tbh so it is untested, send an offer! I will say everything else in the estate it was from worked fine so it probably works.

 

[maxtherabbit]

Card 2 is actually a 386sx CPU card for an AMI EISA motherboard

 

[shirsch]

Card 2 is actually a 386sx CPU card for an AMI EISA motherboard

Are you sure of that? It certainly looks like an intelligent disk controller.

 

[Benson86]

Card 2 is actually a 386sx CPU card for an AMI EISA motherboard

Do you have any data on that or photos? Certainly open to being wrong I thought it could be something like that at first. But everything seems to point to it being a SCSI cashing card. I looked up the FCC ID and that just said SCSI controller, and the AMI SCSI Config Utility when testing it identified it as a "AMI15E1 - AMI Normal Single Ended EISA SCSI CACHING Controller". The only connectors on it are the 2 SCSI and 1 FDD connector.

 

[maxtherabbit]

Perhaps I'm wrong then, when I saw AMI on the silkscreen I thought it was a slam dunk. Had no idea they ever made disk controllers.

 

[Benson86]

Perhaps I'm wrong then, when I saw AMI on the silkscreen I thought it was a slam dunk. Had no idea they ever made disk controllers.

And I just realized I said it's an Adaptec in my original post which im sure adds to the confusion and now I cant edit, oops. Anyone looking at this it is indeed an AMI not an Adaptec card.

 

[Timo W.]

It's a SCSI caching controller. The 386sx handles the data. That was quite common at that time. I have one for IDE that has a 286 on it.

 

[Shadow Lord]

The SCSI controller is an AMI SCSI controller. Looks similar to the AMI Series-44 controller which I talked about in this thread. Based on the silk-screened dates looks to be an older revision.

 

[twolazy]

It's a SCSI caching controller. The 386sx handles the data. That was quite common at that time. I have one for IDE that has a 286 on it.

Same here my Buslogic caching controller has a 286 on it as well.

 

[Benson86]

Same here my Buslogic caching controller has a 286 on it as well.

The SCSI controller is an AMI SCSI controller. Looks similar to the AMI Series-44 controller which I talked about in this thread. Based on the silk-screened dates looks to be an older revision.

It's a pretty neat card, I imagine it must have cost a fortune back in the day lol. Since no one on here seems to have any use for it, if I went to list it on eBay how would you guys recommend I title it? Just AMI Caching SCSI controller card? Is $100 a fair price for it?

 

[dorkbert]

Same here my Buslogic caching controller has a 286 on it as well.

those were actually licensed from tekram.

 

[Shadow Lord]

It's a pretty neat card, I imagine it must have cost a fortune back in the day lol. Since no one on here seems to have any use for it, if I went to list it on eBay how would you guys recommend I title it? Just AMI Caching SCSI controller card? Is $100 a fair price for it?

AMI EISA SCSI Caching controller with 4mb of cache RAM. I think it is a SCSI-2 controller at best so Narrow SCSI at 10mb/s.

$100? It's your card so you can ask for whatever you want but that price to me is unrealistic. No one is dying for a SCSI controller. SCSI HDDs are harder and harder to get. Plus this is an EISA controller limiting the audience and without the drivers and cfg files it could end up just being a nice little paper weight...

 

[twolazy]

If it was ISA I would say 100 bux is about right, but its EISA. I would price it at 50 w/o the ram and 65 with. The others are right with it being SCSI... Crap I have a few EISA Adaptec controllers I couldn't give away for free while back.

 

[Lutiana]

For Card 3 - https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_video_grabber_fast_mm_av_master_front.html

From what i gather they go for around $60 or $70.

it's cool looking card.

 

[Benson86]

If it was ISA I would say 100 bux is about right, but its EISA. I would price it at 50 w/o the ram and 65 with. The others are right with it being SCSI... Crap I have a few EISA Adaptec controllers I couldn't give away for free while back.

That's fair, I do have the CFG files for it so I know it works. If it was ISA id prob hang on to it just because it's so neat, but your right EISA is a bit of a niche.

For Card 3 - https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_video_grabber_fast_mm_av_master_front.html

From what i gather they go for around $60 or $70.

it's cool looking card.

Thanks for the link! I wish the card had composite in instead of just svideo. Could be cool as a retro gaming capture card for someone though.

 

[Lutiana]

Thanks for the link! I wish the card had composite in instead of just svideo. Could be cool as a retro gaming capture card for someone though.

You can convert composite to S-Video very easily and I'd bet there are some very cheap DIY solutions out there to do it as well, or just buy this on Amazon for $8.