What is "Yarc, NuBus, AMD AM29050-40GC"

[Unknown_K]

Most of those research machines are recycled without the hard drive included or intact.

 

[Themk]

Which is sad in a way, as some of the software on them is one-of-a-kind. I hope the drivers for this AM29050 co-processor card are out there still

 

[eschaton]

Even if the system had its hard disk shredded for security, there’s often vendor media (both software and manuals) that wouldn’t be required to be shredded if the people doing the recycling had a better idea what they were doing, and if the user had been careful about keeping things together. Unfortunately a lot of people didn’t think to do that back then.

 

[Unknown_K]

Machines tend to be with the user while media tends to be in IT's hands so over time they get lost or junked separately.

 

[phamtec]

I had a Mac IIfx with a few YARC cards in it many years ago.

YARC cards would run Pixar Renderman, so I built 3D animations in Macromind 3D and then you would spool them to a Mac IIfx with YARC cards that would render the output as sequences of images for making movies.

They were INCREDIBLY expensive and the name is "CRAY" backwards.