Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1

[Sean Caron]

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.
>