Glad you folks know about some of this. First off, I'm an idiot and I can blame it on the pain meds I'm on. Neurontin is great for nerve pain but screws up your memory and thinking. One of those "scsi" ports I looked at is obviously the floppy port. I don't know why I couldn't see it. The short one with the broken corner. I never said it was a "homebrew" product. Atlantis sold all of their Amigas and one guy at Softhut told me when I first got mine that he had purchased one, he recognized the description...the Amiga, not the board, I seem to have the only one of these....that there was so much hacking done to the software onboard that he just formatted the thing and reloaded it all. I did that to the desktop model but kept the Tower intact, just replaced the startup. This was a board built by a company designing both software and hardware for high end medical/military imaging. Their main product seems to have been a moving sonogram image (hence 4D). I have a bunch of their presentation files onboard and have looked at them. Pretty cool images on the inside of someone's body. As far as I know they had no A3000s. The tower I got had an ethernet card, egs spectrum, amaxII+, a CyberstormPPC/060 and about every kind of animation-image software you'd ever want. It was obviously installed in a multi-platform network as a lot of the files pointed to Macs and unix or Linux machines in the LAN. This card was in the box of various spare parts and my buddy told me that it was just part of the package that he bought. He's mostly into music and photography and MGs but he screwed around for a couple of months, didn't really "get" the Amiga stuff and shipped both the A4000s and the box of spare parts to me. I never really looked at the board because I didn't need the "spare" '060 onboard and it obviously wouldn't squeeze into the desktop, which is what I was using. I was preoccupied trying to install a CD drive into the tower and getting OS 3.9 to work. I would call it a prototype or a one-of-a-kind board because they made the thing. I don't know if they ever expected to market to their core clients or if it was used to process images for their presentations. Altera makes some pretty powerful chips as I found when I checked out their website, although I can't find out anything about these particular chips. The chips have the following numbers on them, in case anybody else wants to sniff around. I'm sure it's no "top secret" deal, just sort of a mystery: EPX7800C132-10. There are no empty sockets, maybe the pics were badly lit. Three of these Altera chips, one '060, a scsi (I think) port and a floppy port. Three 72 pin ram slots... it definately fits the CPU slot on my A4KD, but I haven't yet opened up my tower to see how well it would fit there. My buddy told me that some of the prototyping was done on table tops so maybe the thing never actually was in a box, but it obviously was being used as the corner of the floppy port was broken off when the cable was removed. My immediate thought when I looked at it last night was that it was possiby a single processor version of the Cyberstorm/Cybervision pair. ya know, make one board do what two boards were doing? Something like that. So, yeah, I will figure out if it fits into the tower and pop it in to see what os 3.9 thinks of it. If it fires up and seems to work I will run some software thru it and see how fast it is. Anybody feels like offering some suggestions, I'd be happy to listen, but it would be helpful if anybody could walk me thru how to make the damn thing talk to my cable modem because so far none of my Amigas have gotten thru the router. All my stuff comes down into this funky Sony Vaio and then sneakernetted to the Amigas. When the CD works I am able to move large files over to the tower. I have an Ami-2-PC cable and software as well as a 4065 card in the tower. Maybe this should be in the "hardware forum"?
