16 Aug
2012
16 Aug
'12
4:53 p.m.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Mark Wickens wrote:
An S3 Trio card will work with OpenVMS and almost
certainly with
Debian, although the picture quality is fairly poor.
I have a PowerStorm 3D3O (ZLXp-E1) which will do 8 plane at 1280x1024.
I've not tried it in my AlphaServer 300 4/266 because I installed a
ZLXp-E2. I would recommend this card if you can find one - I got one
new from the USA for about $40.
Postage would depend on where you are in the world.
I'm on the US side of the pond. With postage rates as high as they are
now, it probably would make more sense to find a video card on this side
of the pond.
I think I've had this machine since 2001 or 2002, so it is very overdue
for a video board. I have no idea why a former owner removed it, but
perhaps it was one of the better video boards and they had a faster system
they wanted to use it in. The missing floppy drive seemed to be more
puzzling though.
The only thing I've been able to find so far are scrappers on eBay who
want $$$ for old PCI video boards, which needless to say isn't
economically viable for a machine such as this. I think I'd be tempted to
throw a random S3 based board in there if it weren't that I really need to
be able test on proper hardware.