Anyone know what this old card is?

[ElectroBlaster]

I have had this stashed away in my storage for a decade. I have no idea exactly what it is!

Thinking along the lines of Video Seven VGA card? It appears to have ram on it, 9pin monitor connector. No idea why it has RCA cinch connectors?

 

[Bryce]

It's an Expert Sega CGA/EGA (hence the 9pin monitor socket instead of 15pin) ISA graphics card. The cinche connectors were for Audio In, the DIP Switches set the Monitor type. They had 256K RAM which could be expanded to a ridiculous 512K!!

Bryce.

 

[SaviorX]

this is the nearest i can find, it may or may not be identical

these older video cards, particularly 8-bit ISA often came with RCA Composite outputs

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/graphic...TIONAL-INC-Monochrome-EGA-C.html#.VYBCC0aS94I

this one suggest 2 audio inputs, tho i have no idea what you'd use it for...

http://museum.ttrk.ee/th99/v/E-H/54025.htm

 

[Bryce]

Was it really only 64K (256K expansion)!!?? Wow, they were worse than I remember

Bryce.

 

[SaviorX]

a lot of EGA cards back in the day only had 64k, back when ram cost a fortune, i used to have a few.

if i remember correctly the full EGA screen of 640x350x16c (4-bit) made use of 128k (112k actual)

(64k generally limited to 4 colors)

cant quite make out the RAM chips on the card in the photo, so i cant make out if they are 8k (64k) or 32k (256k) (probably 256k)

also the suggestion it does 800x600 as a maximum is very unusual for EGA or Mono/Herc (EGA = 640x350 / EnhancedEGA = 720x540 / Herc = 720x350) (800x600 = SVGA / EnhancedVGA normally)

can't seem to find much more information, tho a lot of the cards i do see with the Gemini VC-001 chipset claim to be "EGA-Ultra" (or similar) so....