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Unidentifiable NuBus Card
Ok, I don't have a digital camera right now, but I'll do my best. I got a Mac IIfx. In it were what I thought were two video cards. But, One of the cards has a fairly large AMD chip on it, almost looks like a 486 processor or something. It also has a bunch of RAM chips on it. It does have a monitor port at the end of it, could this possibly be a PC compatibility card? If not, what is it? And why the AMD chip?
Are there any identifying numbers or model info on the card?
Does the "monitor port" have little hooks on either side of it? It could be network card with an AUI port. The AUI port used the same DB-15 connector that Apple used for monitors, but typically it had a couple of little hooks to either side, instead of the normal screw holes.
Apparantely its a raster video card. it displays video. whats a raster card
okay. i figured out it uses the 8*24 GC extension.... wtf is this thing and more importantly, is it valuable, or rare
Apple 8.24 GC is a good card for an 030 mac, people buy them but they are not super rare.
If it really is an 8.24GC card, then more info at:
http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_03/824GC_V007.html
http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_03/824GC_V007.html
That's some good infos mac2geezer!
Just a video card. Old terminology.whats a raster card
The raster part probably refers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics, which is a way of drawing stuff on a screen. Don't why they'd need to say that, I think raster is the way things work right now? Maybe that was a change or improvement at the time or maybe they simply wanted everyone to know that it was a video card?
I haven't read a new Apple Service manual in years, but I know the old ones used to refer to the image on the display as a raster.