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Unidentifiable NuBus Card

68kMLA Hardware 11 posts Aug 12, 2010 to Aug 20, 2010
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#1 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 - 16:27 68kMLA
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?

#2 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 - 18:14 68kMLA
Are there any identifying numbers or model info on the card?

#3 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 - 18:18 68kMLA
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.

#5 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 - 21:01 68kMLA
Apparantely its a raster video card. it displays video. whats a raster card

#6 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 - 21:03 68kMLA
okay. i figured out it uses the 8*24 GC extension.... wtf is this thing and more importantly, is it valuable, or rare

#7 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 - 21:18 68kMLA
Apple 8.24 GC is a good card for an 030 mac, people buy them but they are not super rare.

#9 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 - 07:40 68kMLA
That's some good infos mac2geezer!

whats a raster card
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Just a video card. Old terminology.

#10 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 - 22:30 68kMLA
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?

#11 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 - 23:59 68kMLA
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.

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