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Re: What exactly does a zorroII card look like?
« on: February 18, 2005, 02:36:41 PM »
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graffias79 wrote:
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Generale wrote:

But the thing that gets me is that one of them looks like an 8-bit isa on a full length XT/PC card with another bit of edge connector way down the other end. That's the one covered in 256k simms.
I know it's a long shot. But I can always hope.


Sounds a lot like an ancient Vesa Local Bus or VLB video card.  It's a PC thing.  Looks like an ISA slot with a brown PCI slot behind it on the motherboard, except it isn't a PCI slot.


I wouldn't expect SIMMs on a video card, but you never know.  One likely possibility, if it *is* an Amiga card, is that it's a bridgeboard -- those are the only cards that'd touch both the ISA bus and the Zorro bus lurking inside a big-box Amiga -- so compare and contrast some likely photos of that.

Just as likely (and finding a manufacturer on the silkscreen would help confirm it) is that it's one of the proprietary PC expansions thus-described...

...And from there, it could even be a whole standalone 486-on-a-card or similar, intended for use with an industrial backplane.