Poll: OK Anandtech, guess this card's function! [CONGRATULATIONS! YOU LOSE!]

[Killbat]

The answer in 10 minutes...

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I'm sticking with a DAQ card. Although it does bear a very slight resemblance to a hard card that I pulled from a 286 and an external SCSI card that I yanked from a 486.

 

[Cyberian]

CGA and EGA connectors were usually much smaller, as were Token-Ring connectors.
Wouldn't a serial port be a 25 pin male connector?

External floppy drive adaptor?

 

[Cyberian]

<< &quot;Killbat, you have WAY too much free time on your hands.&quot; >>

 

[Idiot56209]

You know... as I said in my post, the processing chips and the EEPROM and the RAM made me think it was a Western Digital Paradise video card... so I was right... but I couldn't explain the 25 pin connector. I have to admit that in all of my years, I never saw a 25 pin connector video jack.

 

[zippy]

OMG...only one person thought it was a video card?! Are you guys retarded!? :Q The first thing that popped into my head when I saw it was video card...I looked around more and came to my conclusion that it in fact was a video card.

Note the RF protection area by the connector.

 

[Cyberian]

Ummmmmmmm .....

Why didn't you tell us earlier?

 

[SuperSix]

<< I have to admit that in all of my years, I never saw a 25 pin connector video jack. >>



Now you are making me feel old.

I have never seen a 25 pin connecter either, but knew it was a video card. The memory, the BIOS, the crystals.. Betcha it was manufactured by ATI..They have a unique font they use on the component assignments.

I believe the lower large chip is the RAMDAC.

 

[Netopia]

Yippy!

Joe

PS... I may have one for you to guess about soon.

Joe

 

[Noriaki]

Well I missed the guessing game but it's very obviously a Video card.

Don't get hung up on connector types...you should see what UltraSPARC stations use to connect to their monitors.

That has way to much stuff on it to be a Parallel card. It definately looks like a video card.