What is this? Post Photos of Mystery Items Here (vintage computers only)

[1ajs]

heart ache

 

[Nicolas 2000]

I've done some googling on stuff that was readable from my photos, and the ISA cards are indeed a Goldstar I/O card and a Trident 9016X2/4 (9000B) video card. Neither are an improvement over what I have in my current 486 DX50 (1MB gpu expandable to 2MB). The damaged motherboard says 386SX on it so that is quite obvious now.

The other items are harder to identify as the photos are from the side. The AWE32 was a rather easy one, the rest is more anonymous but I think I've found them. The one in the older of the two computers, that is a Sound Blaster 16. Oh boy, that is the second good ISA sound card I let go in that lot, and you can add another SB16 and the AWE64 to that. And now I'm stuck with a rather crappy ISA sound card. Sigh.

The graphics card in the Pentium 100 looks to be a Matrox Mystique 2MB. Well, I've got a Matrox Millennium 2 12MB PCI laying here and my 486 doesn't have PCI, so I wouldn't miss the Mystique.

 

[MiaM]

That certainly looks like the one.

Shame no one sells them

Ah, except Radwell at Radwell prices (£33 for one!)

Is that a different type of Belling Lee than the one used for regular TV and FM antennas in Europe (and whatnot)? If it's the same then I assume that every consumer electronics shop sells them. Or rather sells compatible connectors from other brands. Beware that the round ones likely requires a coax cable of about the diameter you'd expect from a TV antenna wire, while the angled ones can accept more or less any type of wire (like even speaker wire although that would of course result in a not so great picture quality).

 

[Qbertnix]

Is that a different type of Belling Lee than the one used for regular TV and FM antennas in Europe (and whatnot)? If it's the same then I assume that every consumer electronics shop sells them. Or rather sells compatible connectors from other brands. Beware that the round ones likely requires a coax cable of about the diameter you'd expect from a TV antenna wire, while the angled ones can accept more or less any type of wire (like even speaker wire although that would of course result in a not so great picture quality).

Same company different smaller connector, often referred to as a belling lee miniature rf connector

 

[Gary C]

Is that a different type of Belling Lee than the one used for regular TV and FM antennas in Europe (and whatnot)? If it's the same then I assume that every consumer electronics shop sells them. Or rather sells compatible connectors from other brands. Beware that the round ones likely requires a coax cable of about the diameter you'd expect from a TV antenna wire, while the angled ones can accept more or less any type of wire (like even speaker wire although that would of course result in a not so great picture quality).

Its about half the size. Its 4.4mm against 9.5mm. It also included a detent type clip in the socket.



Despite them being designed for coax, RML used ribbon cable

 

[famicomaster2]

indeed looks like it. Those are in the 100-120mb range, so that would indicate an early 486 like a 33?

i see high asking prices (150-350) for them on ebay, but I doubt those would sell in the real world. Even at 50 euro on other sites I see them unsold after half a year.

80, 100, and 120 megs.
Kalok Octagon II KL3080, KL3100, KL3120
Xebec XE3080, XE3100, XE3120

If you're talking about the price of the drive, most of mine were well under 50 bucks each.

 

[fargo]

This photograph was taken sometime between the late 1980s and early 1990s. The terminal or computer in the image is of an unknown type.

 

[Hak Foo]

Got this at the thrift shop a few weeks ago-- a "Vision-1" labelled (C) 1986 Occidental Newspaper Products, with a Phoenix area phone number.

They had two units-- one had an IEC socket instead of a permanent power cord, and the rear socket was rotated 90 degrees.

It's about 12x15x5cm, with a DE-9 on the front labelled "keyboard" (along with a big red pushbutton power switch and light). The back has a similar DE-9 labelled "Computer B" (with space for a potential "Computer A" above it, and a RCA jack labelled video, and a mains passthough.

I figured maybe it was some sort of standalone terminal appliance-- a SBC inside to drive a random monitor. But when you crack it open (using very awkward one-way screws!) there's "no there there". There's a large transformer, and some of the lines from the rear DE-9 are connected to the front, and others are broken out to the "video" jack. It seems like this is nothing more than a breakout and power supply for the keyboard.

I'm sort of baffled as to what the "remote" system would look like-- assuming the "video" is a direct video signal, it feels like generating it elsewhere and piping it into this box would make it noisier than necessary.

Edit: Not sure why when I pre-resized the images in GIMP, they went all weird as just solid interlaced blocks.

 

[hunterjwizzard]

Phoenix area phone number.

Did you try calling the number?

 

[Istarian]

@Hak Foo It kinda strikes as being something like a KVM switch you would use to hook a monitor, keyboard, and mouse (colloquially a "console" to more than one computer.

Hence the keyboard itself would connect to the box and some kind of keyboard extension cable would be used to connect the box to computer A, computer B respectively.

The video port is a little odd, but presumably it is for either a black & white video display (signal is just ab intensity level and maybe sync) or NTSC/PAL composite video. Not sure if the rear port is input or output though. I guess output would make more sense, though.

The only real question here is which systems was this product intended to be used with?

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Got this at the thrift shop a few weeks ago-- a "Vision-1" labelled (C) 1986 Occidental Newspaper Products, with a Phoenix area phone number.

I wish I had thrift stores like that around here.

 

[hunterjwizzard]

I wish I had thrift stores like that around here.

You and me both.