30 Nov
2014
30 Nov
'14
9:36 p.m.
Matrox QG-640... a third party video card for the Q-bus?! Neat. Will it
drive a VGA display? I looked at the PDF of the manual and the specs sound
similar. What does the bulkhead look like? Did it use a standard DEC
keyboard and puck mouse with breakout cable like the VCB02? Do you have a
complete system? It would be cool to see a picture if you could get them to
drive a common VGA display. Curious to know more. Were there other third
party vendors in the Q-bus video market?
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
One product that used the NS32016 was the Matrox
QG-640 Color Display
Processor Card for the Q-Bus. That NS32016 was used as the general
purpose CPU in addition to the HD63484 Advanced CRT Controller
(ACRTC). The NS32016 is the command processor and handles 3D to 2D
transformations when a 3D coordinate space is used. The physical
display resolution is 640x480.
I have a couple of the Matrox QG-640 boards that I have never gotten
around to trying out in a Q-Bus system yet. They look like they would
be interesting if they work.