13 Oct
2003
13 Oct
'03
7:56 a.m.
Gene Buckle wrote:
In cleaning out some of my old stuff, I ran across a
Diamond Stealth 64
PCI VGA card. What makes it interesting is that it's got a full size 15
pin d-sub connector instead of the 9 pin size, high density 15 pin d-sub
connector.
DA15 (instead of DE15) was commonly used for some Apple monitors.
PCI made it possible to physically insert Apple PCI cards into PC PCI bus,
and vice versa.
The local humane society had a donated PC with such a video card that
they were using for record keeping of their vet hospital. Their "vertical
market solutions" vendor insisted on selling them an entire IBM computer,
"because that one with the weird video connector is too weird!"