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jt

Naw, they said it was at one time the fastest mac alive. Not really any point is mentioning it either way, though. Unless it's a Quadra 840av they're talking about, that is!

me too, but it looks like my penchant for gonzo-case/slots/bays/pixels is getting some reinforcement soon! you can keep that stumpy little hot rod/suv/thingie, we're talkin' 950! just like my Sierra 25 (full size 8'bed pickup), i could keep a freakin' suv in the back as a spare!

bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!

jt

p.s. unless of course, somebody sniped it with an e-mail bid just under the wire! whatever!

that would be me, i checked all my mailboxes about 15 minutes before the end of the auction. why didn't you post here, i kept waiting for the topic to pop back up, i've been hanging around for the last couple of hours and finally decided to bid!

jt

p.s. offer's still open if you want one canal street fx's tho!

assy #180505-0 might be #160505.0

googled again just since you posted:

http://www.vimarket.com/browse_company.php3
http://www.natinst.com

VirtualBench™
Ready-to-Run Virtual Instruments: Oscilloscope, Dynamic Signal
Analyzer, Function Generator, Digital Multimeter, and Data Logger
VirtualBench is a family of ready-to-run software virtual instruments. These virtual instruments feature the capabilities of stand-alone instruments when combined with DAQ hardware. The VirtualBench family consists of five instruments – the VirtualBench SCOPE oscilloscope, the VirtualBench DSA dynamic signal analyzer, the VirtualBench FG function generator, the VirtualBench DMM digital multimeter, and the VirtualBench LOGGER data logger. With one multifunction DAQ product, you can have the functionality of all five instruments.

alphabetical listing of products:
http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc_util.alpha_list

don't remember where i found this pdf:

Price list in EURO
Effective July, 01, 2000

GPIB Instrument Control
PC Controllers
NuBus

776756•01___NB•GPIB•P/TNT and NI•488.2 for Mac OS______________750

776756•51___NB•GPIB•P/TNT, NI•488.2 for Mac OS, X2 Cable,2 m_____865

776790•01___NB•GPIB/TNT and NI•488.2 Software for Mac OS________750

776790•51___NB•GPIB/TNT, NI•488.2 for Mac OS, X2 GPIB Cable,2 m__865

dunno, should have the stuff in my grubby little paws about 3 hours from now tho! i was more interested in the missing breakout box for the "DSP sound card" i'll be in touch, maybe we should load and launch this thread into 68k peripherals

jt

anyhoo:

ok, got machine and cards in hand, thought i'd report before testing:

Macintosh Display Card: 12" NuBus w/ 2 4•8 VRAM SIMMS and ROM 341-0801-02 1986-90
(why didn't apple just put the freakin' designation on the cards, is an 8•24 just a 4•8 with factory installed simms? *sheesh!*

DIGIDESIGN SOUND ACCELERATOR II with a DB25 and a 1/4" headphone jack.

TRUEVISION NUVISTA + Video capture and effects board with a half full memory card
here's a link to the page with the .pdf manual:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/display.asp?FileID=267&ProductID=384

the NuVista is listed as paired with a Nat-Int card, probably as a likely config. found in a machine in need of a boost in performance:

quote:

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ROCKET LIFT-OFF APPLICATION

Rocket Lift-Off, included on disk One of the RocketWare disk set, is a utility designed to verify that RocketWare is being installed onto a supported Macintosh computer. It also checks for certain products not currently supported by RocketWare. Some of the unsupported items that Lift-Off checks for include:

Old versions of TrueVision's NuVista card and National Instruments GPIB card

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That sounds the thing - I've been away from home a week and a bit now, so I'm not too sure just what it is :D. Truevision Nuvista+ sounds the go... it's a shortish card, with another vram-looking card strapped on the end to bring it up to 12", and then another connector on the end of the vram-card which goes off to the jpeg decoder board - I'll get the right name n number when I'm back in my lil machouse :D

dana

what the heck is an automedia card? found an interesting history of the company, but i think there's supposed to be a rack mounted breakout box to hang on the DB25, i guess i could use the headset option, or is it a mic input? dunno!

i'm beat! *yawns* i'll bet somebody was using this thing to do some pretty high end editing at one time. the chips and circuits on the Nat-Int card look just like the control circuitry on a project i worked on at around that time. i'm betting that the mac tied together and automated laying down all the sound and video on a high end unit like the one i linked to. The automedia and the nuvista were the pipes and tape unit was the cauldron, the nat-int card was the valve lashup and the IIfx mobo was cookin' up some toil and trouble!

did that make any sense?

jt

I think it may have been the pinnacle site where I downloaded the drivers from in the first place - yet again, I'm not home, and I'm lost without my fileserver! I'll pop them online when I get back, which is likely this afternoon :D. I didn't have the other card however, no - just the truevisionnuvista+, the attached jpeg card, audiomedia II, siliconexpressIV and PPC card.

Oh! I have a scanner now - I can scan the cards!!! :D

dana

and here's one! http://www.danamania.com/temp/nuvista.jpg

It's in black & white and looks like crap. I think I'll rescan it - anyhows thats the end of the main nuvista card - you can see where the huge connector joins the lil vram daughtercard to the main nuvista card - on the far left, there's the connector which connects the daughtercard to the jpeg en/decoder nubus card. I should prolly scan that too. I was looking for something to do in photoshop, too :D.

the daughtercard on mine there, has the same number of vram chippies on the back also.

dana

i'll have to get my scanner out too, but you can see all there really is to be seen in the auction pics.

interesting way to share info, this www thingie!

jt ™

Noooow I see the difference. yup. different board n all - perhaps the vram on mine is some kind of dualported thing, where the nuvista+ can read away and constantly display it/do its job with keying etc, and the jpeg card can be used to go mad decompressing/recompressing frame by fram. Or something along those lines anyhoo.

(is all vram dual ported?)

I peeped about on google and found the chips themselves on mine (524256's) were mentioned in a few places - one of which was a link back to these forums and the discussion cinemo and I had about this card when I first came across it! heh. anyhows, another page came up with:

These are dual-ported devices: each chip has a 4-bit read/write port connected via circuitry in the BGA to the interface processor; each chip also has a serial access read-only port that is used to provide data for the display. Each chip has four 512-bit shift registers, which are used to drive the serial access port. Once the shift registers have been loaded, access via the other port may take place while the serial data is being shifted out the
serial port.

dana

I was thinking that too...it may be corny now-a-days, but it's always a simple pleasure...

Speaking of the jpeg board - I scanned it too. just 'cos :D

danascan

only the top half inch or so of that scan loads! how big are those files? it would be awsome to have scans of every card in the army if we had a about a terabyte of storage somwheres, hrrmh? the only differences i spotted between the bse boards was that yours has a metal crystal can and different stickers. nice bunch of analog tweakables on board huh?

jt ™

That pic is around 170kb... it works okee here, and may just need a reload for you a lil later.

I don't know just what kind of tweaking could be done :D. It's a real pity I don't have the HD speed to get the thing capturing. It could give me an obsession to move onto after the 605's :D.

The jpeg codec chip looks quite nice - it's like a little purple plastic 040 :D

dana

btw, my TruVista's memcard VRAM is TC524256AZ-10 SIP from Toshiba which is very close to the TC524256Z-12 SIPs on the 1988 E-Machines 8 Plane Video Controller 029-00496-01 that came in one of fx's in the middle batch of II's that i snapped up. this board is interesting because it used an HD15 interface before it was standardized for VGA/SVGA (not 100% sure about that timetable, anybody got a source for video output timeline info?). I haven't uncovered any info on that card, i think it's probably a proprietary interface for one of their monitors that i might need to try to acquire at some point. Pinouts might let me adapt it to a multisync, but so far NADA in terms of hits on the card!

I think I'm going to put a link to this thread in peripherals.

jt ™