So I was given an old BSR 386DX/33 70364-B computer. While going through the cards to find data sheets and drivers and some I was unable to ID some of them. Anyone have ideas ? I plan to use this machine for my ISA based PC Comms Link card I think this is an addon card for using a PS2 mouse http://wizardsarcade...A-card-01-A.jpg http://wizardsarcade...A-card-01-B.jpg SupraFAX Modem v.32bis http://wizardsarcade...A-card-02-A.jpg http://wizardsarcade...A-card-02-B.jpg on ebay comes up a "Groundhog Graphics The Shadow ISA Video Card Vintage Tseng ET4000AX ET4000" http://wizardsarcade...A-card-03-A.jpg http://wizardsarcade...A-card-03-B.jpg Sound Blaster CT1350B http://wizardsarcade...A-card-04-A.jpg http://wizardsarcade...A-card-04-B.jpg
That first one doesn't look like a PS/2 connector. It's most likely for a proprietary mouse or a pen/tablet. The rest is pretty clearly labeled.
the first card look very similar to this one http://www.weisd.com/test/WEISD_TBL_view.php?editid1=QVSCA246-2BB and the video card only thing on google I find for it is an ebay auction nothing else, and no drivers
And after some cleaning and reseating the video card. The system is ALIVE, video started to work. Now I will be out looking for an old style keyboard for the system (I could use some AT to PS2 adapters, but prefer not to). I know what project I will be working on hopefully this weekend
Isn't it just a VGA video card? I swapped the video card (1MB AHEAD adaptor) of my 80486 with a ET4000, and I never had to even change the driver for Windows 3.1. The SoundBlaster 1350B appears to be a Sound Blaster 2.0.
There are (optimized?) drivers for ET4000s, at least for Win3.1, but iirc I had one of those cards also, never had to install drivers and it performed well enough anyways. And yes, the CT1350B is a SB2.0, you can even find it on Wikipedia.
Yup doesn't "need" drivers but I remember having issues back in the when using a PC Comms Link card on a system and after updating problem drivers for the video and sound the card started to work again. Since I plan to use this system also for my comms card didn't want to repeat the issue again.
the 1st card is a BUS mouse interface, ps2 mice won't work - you need (obviously) a bus one... it's easier to get a serial card and use a serial mouse the modem is useless the vga is a good/fast ISA one, no need for drivers in DOS , you need TSENG drivers for windows 3.x though in order to activate higher resolutions/color/gui acceleration features. the SB is a "Sound Blaster 2.0" sound card, the empty sockets are for installing the CMS chipset to give you GameBlaster backwards compatibility . Overal it's a pretty nice 386DX system, I'm sure it will offer tons of fun in DOS gaming ps. VOGONS forum is THE place to be for retro-pc hardware/software: http://www.vogons.org
thanks for the information Keropi, I just registered for the vogons forum because someone on atariage told me about it. Will see what all the system can do for sure I have a few large boxes of old PC hardware (ISA, PCI, and AGP based systems) motherboards, ram chips, modems, SCSI cards, Firewire cards, old CDrom drives, 5 1/4 floppy drives, etc etc. That I plan to pull out and test everything. So I will be looking at building a sort of tench bench setup for the hardware so I can quickly change stuff around for testing and then putting into new anti static bags. James
Heh, forgot about a bus mouse thing, mainly because i saw it only once or twice in my life. RS-232 aka COM port and later PS/2 mice were way more common in late 80s and 90s. I thought it was a handheld scanner proprietary controller, something like this. .
very cool man, still trying to figure out more details on the one I have all the numbers do not really match anything online. Cool looking scanner though LOL all the handheld ones I used back in the day was horrible, also congrats on the 666 posts. I just noticed it while typing this reply
I don't remember which chip is which but in the late 80s/early 90's every cheap serial/parallel card out of Taiwan used an HMC chip. So what you have there is a generic chip with what is probably a bus mouse connector on the back. The only thing that might possibly be unique to that card is the 9212 at the top which is likely the part number used by a factory that closed over 2 decades ago.
