Unidentifiable NuBus Card

[jpolster2009]

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?

 

[mac2geezer]

Are there any identifying numbers or model info on the card?

 

[trag]

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.

 

[Unknown_K]

Does it look like anything here?

http://picasaweb.google.com/teozenios/NubusCards#

 

[jpolster2009]

Apparantely its a raster video card. it displays video. whats a raster card

 

[jpolster2009]

okay. i figured out it uses the 8*24 GC extension.... wtf is this thing and more importantly, is it valuable, or rare

 

[Unknown_K]

Apple 8.24 GC is a good card for an 030 mac, people buy them but they are not super rare.

 

[mac2geezer]

If it really is an 8.24GC card, then more info at:

http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_03/824GC_V007.html

 

[Bunsen]

That's some good infos mac2geezer!

whats a raster card

Just a video card. Old terminology.

 

[Nathan]

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?

 

[LCGuy]

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.