Anybody have any knowledge on this?
Posted by TheActionReplay@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Unsure of what it is
Posted by TheActionReplay@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Unsure of what it is
Dannynerd41@reddit
i have no knowledge i only have cheese
Key_Survey5374@reddit
Interface card or memory card early generation of computers.....1980s?
Matt3141592@reddit
OF COURSE it’s from the “1980s”, Einstein. It very clearly says “Copyright 1987”. Also clearly not a “memory card”, whatever you think THAT is. Please refrain from guessing, as you have poor observational skills and poor knowledge - bad combination. Thanks in advance!
No-Goat-7530@reddit
Is this irony, i don’t understand
SaturnFive@reddit
Looks like a mainboard for a WYSE terminal, based on the text on the edge and because it has a 286 CPU installed. I don't know much about them specifically but it could be for an industrial-style backplane PC where the whole PC is on one card, then other cards are slotted in adjacent to it.
The singular RJ-11 looking port is probably the modem or terminal where this board would connect up to the mainframe or other central system
MWink64@reddit
I'm pretty sure it's for the keyboard.
SaturnFive@reddit
Good point, not a very useful terminal without a keyboard. Maybe it uses another card for networking
No-Goat-7530@reddit
Didn’t some backplane mobos have an at keyboard port?
MWink64@reddit
Mine has a Digiboard. Then again, it's a "communications controller." It doesn't even have a video card. But it does have the same board as the OP.
WeakSherbert@reddit
CPU Card to a Wyse PC or the rebadged Businessland PC. I worked on these at Businessland in late 80s.
PerformanceTrick1233@reddit
worked back in the dayand would do a lot of punch down jacks on the patch panel for basic phone line/fax lines working for qvc.com in their warehouses......but it also reminded me of wyse terninals connecting to big iron mainframes.....also coax 3270 cable....so old i am lol
West-Way-All-The-Way@reddit
286 PC cars. Very cool! Perhaps industrial as other suggested.
pimpcauldron@reddit
here you go
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1sp25fc/wyse_2108_with_ega_monitor/
Disastrous-Year571@reddit
It’s from a Wyse terminal. Wyse Technology motherboards often featured a dedicated daughter board, typically for 80286-based systems or specialized display controllers, such as the Wyse WY-700