Does anyone know what this card is/goes to?

[JT737]

I got this off of Ebay a while back in a lot of Mac parts. Judging by the chips that it has I think that it is a video card, but I'm not sure. Does anyone have any idea what this card might go to?

Maybe it doesn't even go to a Mac at all!

 

[SophieRose]

Looks like a daughter card from an Avid Nuvista nubus card.

Like here.. Thread 'NUBUS Card Identification' https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/nubus-card-identification.39727/

 

[JT737]

@SophieRose -That looks like it! Now, what to do with it.....

 

[mikes-macs]

Sell it or install it into SE/30.

 

[finkmac]

Sell it or install it into SE/30.

how would you do that, given that it's not an SE/30 card?
I'm not aware of an SE/30 Avid card?

 

[mikes-macs]

oh then stick it in a computer it goes into then. That is what you do with it.

 

[Phipli]

oh then stick it in a computer it goes into then. That is what you do with it.

Seriously man. This isn't a good look.

 

[joshc]

Yes, it does appear to be a daughtercard for the Avid TrueVision NuVista NuBus card, see below.

Now, what that does...I don't know exactly. Video things?

 

[Phipli]

Yes, it does appear to be a daughtercard for the Avid TrueVision NuVista NuBus card, see below.

Now, what that does...I don't know exactly. Video things?

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A lot of it seems to be Video memory. It also has the link cable to the JPEG decoder board on it, not sure what the FPGAs (or whatever, presumably programmable, logic chips they are) or GALs are doing, but I'd generally defer to @ppuskari in anything that I think needs his Avid attention.

 

[Phipli]

Yes, it does appear to be a daughtercard for the Avid TrueVision NuVista NuBus card, see below.

Now, what that does...I don't know exactly. Video things?

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Oh, if you mean the whole card? They're like, TV studio cards, they usually come with a separate JPEG hardware encoder card (used for video compression / decompression in the fly) and an AudioMedia II. They have video inputs and video outputs and can genlock. They were used in TV studios for titles and credits and other stuff. There is a manual floating around. I believe they can overlay inputted video in a window in the screen, PiP, but I might be talking nonsense.

I have the NuVista, but sadly not the JPEG card, it had gone it's separate way, which seems to be really common with these.

You can just use them as a video card, they support 640x480, the pinout is in the manual.

Obviously the card this thread is about is just a part and no use on its own. Someone unplugged what was effectively two parts of one card.

 

[mikes-macs]

Seriously man. This isn't a good look.

excuse me?

 

[Quadraman]

Loose daughtercards are always fun things. Now all you have to do is source the other part that it mates up with, to be able to use it. I have part of a Rasterops video upgrade here somewhere. Have the board, but it didn't come with the cable. The seller didn't know what it was. I hoped I would be able to get the cable later, but never did. I also have part of a Hyperdrive upgrade, but not all of it. Again, I hoped I would be able to source the missing pieces at a later date, but never did. I also have a 512k with the Hyperdrive emblem on the front of the case. I bought it thinking it had a Hyperdrive installed, but it turned out not to. All the things above, were cheap enough at the time, so I'm not out very much for buying them. Maybe one day, I'll buy a compact Mac parts lot, that has the pieces that I need, and be able to complete the incomplete bits and pieces that I have.