One Man Band
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I just opened up one of my Platinums and found these inside. Does anyone know what they are? I think they're together somehow. They were in neighboring slots: the normal card was in 2 and the 'monolith' was in 3 (or it might have been 3 and 4...I forget now and I didn't take a picture first, doh!).
Anyway, the normal card has the following markings on it:
GSP (looks like company logo silked on the board), has a big Zilog 8530 chip, and 2x 25 pin connectors labeled Port A and Port B.
There is info done in traces:
ARTWORK PC19845
REV B
DETAIL PC19846
MODEL GTP-245
ASSY PC19847
EPD 3 94V O
The other 'thing' is really weird and I've never seen the likes of this before:
A normal card edge is all I can see as far as components go, the rest is ENTIRELY encased is a solid, black resin kind of stuff. About half an inch thick. You can tell by the picture there are some 'things' in there because the surface of that side is irregular (you can see rectangular shapes in it). From left to right, it looks like a big chip on the far left, then a smaller chip next to it, and 3 columns of chips. It's as if someone REALLY doesn't want others to know how this 'thing' was implemented.
Anyway, I can tell they are connected somehow (though there are no cables connecting them) because there is a sticker on the top edge of the monolith with the following printed with a dot-matrix printer:
P20553C REV:B/A
S/N 104,091
And on top of that is a 6 (or 9) stamped on it in red ink. It's the same 6 (or 9) that is stamped on a white sticker on the back of the normal card, and also uses the same font font that is on the card-side of the 25pin ribbons (14 for the Port A ribbon, and 7 for the Port B ribbon). Next to the dot matrix sticker on the top of the monolith is a black foam pad. I guess it's to protect the ribbons from rubbing on it because when I opened up the case, the bottom ribbon was stuck into this pad.
I can take pictures of anything else to help identify these.
Thanks!
]3ob
I just opened up one of my Platinums and found these inside. Does anyone know what they are? I think they're together somehow. They were in neighboring slots: the normal card was in 2 and the 'monolith' was in 3 (or it might have been 3 and 4...I forget now and I didn't take a picture first, doh!).
Anyway, the normal card has the following markings on it:
GSP (looks like company logo silked on the board), has a big Zilog 8530 chip, and 2x 25 pin connectors labeled Port A and Port B.
There is info done in traces:
ARTWORK PC19845
REV B
DETAIL PC19846
MODEL GTP-245
ASSY PC19847
EPD 3 94V O
The other 'thing' is really weird and I've never seen the likes of this before:
A normal card edge is all I can see as far as components go, the rest is ENTIRELY encased is a solid, black resin kind of stuff. About half an inch thick. You can tell by the picture there are some 'things' in there because the surface of that side is irregular (you can see rectangular shapes in it). From left to right, it looks like a big chip on the far left, then a smaller chip next to it, and 3 columns of chips. It's as if someone REALLY doesn't want others to know how this 'thing' was implemented.
Anyway, I can tell they are connected somehow (though there are no cables connecting them) because there is a sticker on the top edge of the monolith with the following printed with a dot-matrix printer:
P20553C REV:B/A
S/N 104,091
And on top of that is a 6 (or 9) stamped on it in red ink. It's the same 6 (or 9) that is stamped on a white sticker on the back of the normal card, and also uses the same font font that is on the card-side of the 25pin ribbons (14 for the Port A ribbon, and 7 for the Port B ribbon). Next to the dot matrix sticker on the top of the monolith is a black foam pad. I guess it's to protect the ribbons from rubbing on it because when I opened up the case, the bottom ribbon was stuck into this pad.
I can take pictures of anything else to help identify these.
Thanks!
]3ob