Help Identifying Mystery SBUS Cards
John-Paul Stewart
jpstewart at personalprojects.net
Sun Jul 11 10:36:53 CDT 2021
On 2021-07-11 4:37 a.m., Classic CMP via cctalk wrote:
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> (2) A dual width SBUS framebuffer, with space for a piggyback daughter
> SBUS card in the middle. It features 3 x Bt457 RAMDACs and an Actel
> A1020A chip.
Possibly part of the "SPARC Card TV" partially described here:
http://www.hyperstation.de/SBus-Framebuffer/SPARC_Card_TV/sparc_card_tv.html
You seem to be missing the upper board, though.
> (4) Possible Serial card with a DB9 connector, although there’s WAY too
> much logic for a simple serial card. Has a jumper for 4Mhz / 16Mhz
> which hints at maybe something Token-ring?
Most likely Sun's "TRI/S" token ring interface, 501-1932.
https://shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Devices/Communication/COMM_TRI_S.html
> (5) A SBUS card with S-Video and what I assume to be composite. Looks
> like a 501-3019 on first inspection but there’s less logic and no
> heatsink on board.
Probably the earlier Sun VideoPix (501-1706) in that case.
https://shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Devices/Graphics/GRAPH_VideoPix.html
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