18 May
2003
18 May
'03
10:11 a.m.
I was going over some old cables, and found a strange
card in them.
It is marked C.A.V.I. interface and has a sticker that reads Cavri Systems.
Maybe 'Constant Angular Velocity Interactive'? This sounds like a video
disk player interface
There is a 1980 date etched on the board, and under
the sticker it looks
like it says BCD Associates. There are seven chips on board, 2
DM7416N's a DM74LS14N, 2 Magnecraft W107DIP-5's, a Magnecraft W118DIP-5,
and a rockwell 6520-11. There are 6 outputs: Monitor V, Monitor A, Audio
Ch1 and 2, Player V and Computer V, and a nasty HRS rectangular locking plug.
Monitor video, monitor audio, Audio inputs from the videodisk player (2
channels), player video and computer video. I would guess the rectangular
connector is for the remote control signals to the player (to select
individual frames, etc).
-tony