[rescue] ViTec SBus video cards(was: help with sbus card)

Mon Sep 17 16:10:58 CDT 2001

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There's good news and bad news.

I've got an almost exact duplicate, and I know of
at least one other person on the list who also does.
These cards were apparently early 24-bit frame
buffers (mine dates from ~1991) that I haven't been
able to find any evidence of support for in Solaris
2.anything or any of the *BSD/Linux variants.

I haven't had a chance to test mine under SunOS
4.1.[34] yet, but that's about the only hope I have
of making it useful.  ViTec was bought by another
company which was bought by another company...
and essentially no one's been supporting this
hardware for at least 5-6 years.

Let me know if you have any better luck--
--
Rip Loomis
Senior Systems Security Engineer
SAIC Center for Information Security Technology 

-----Original Message-----
From: nigel burridge [mailto:nigelb at keytechnical.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, 15 September, 2001 06:28
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Cc: jberr64449 at aol.com
Subject: [rescue] help with sbus card

 help i have found a unusual sbus card (video 13w3) it has the folowing
chips bt463(ramdac) and vitec-dpd(video cpu) and has 32 memory chips (nec
d482234g5) underside has fab 20vx0010-1(model?) and visual information
technologies inc.(maker?)

Best Regards
tony Berridge

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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001>There's good news and bad news.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>I've 
got an almost exact duplicate, and I know of</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>at 
least one other person on the list who also does.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>These 
cards were apparently early 24-bit frame</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001>buffers (mine dates from ~1991) that I haven't 
been</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>able 
to find any evidence of support for in Solaris</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001>2.anything or any of the *BSD/Linux 
variants.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>I 
haven't had a chance to test mine under SunOS</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001>4.1.[34] yet, but that's about the only hope I 
have</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>of 
making it useful.  ViTec was bought by another</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001>company which was bought by another 
company...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>and 
essentially no one's been supporting this</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001>hardware for at least 5-6 years.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=155040322-17092001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001>Let me 
know if you have any better luck--</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=155040322-17092001><FONT 
size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P><FONT size=2>--<BR>Rip Loomis<BR>Senior Systems Security Engineer<BR>SAIC 
Center for Information Security Technology </FONT></P>
<P align=left></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original 
Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> nigel burridge 
[mailto:nigelb at keytechnical.co.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, 15 September, 2001 
06:28<BR><B>To:</B> rescue at sunhelp.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> 
jberr64449 at aol.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [rescue] help with sbus 
card<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> help i have found a unusual sbus card 
  (video 13w3) it has the folowing chips bt463(ramdac) and vitec-dpd(video cpu) 
  and has 32 memory chips (nec d482234g5) underside has fab 20vx0010-1(model?) 
  and visual information technologies inc.(maker?)</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV> </DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best 
  Regards<BR>tony Berridge<BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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