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i did a little digging and found a photo on a German retrocomputing forum (https://www.dosforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=10607). this is the best photo i can find. i don't think this was a very common card. looks like the chip is a "DI" (?) "HCT CIA-2" hmm, even if i manage to find the chip, the other problem is that i don't have the ADF file for it. this is the adapter configuration file and it is required to get the card to function. hilariously, one of the folks on dosforum mentions that they have the ADF file, but then they don't share it. there's another chip on the board with the same logo. it's not "DI" but it is the logo for Hercules. i found a vintage ad for an older Hercules card. The LPT112 is their custom parallel port chip. no idea what it is doing on this newer video card. maybe they were using it as a GPIO port. @PCOWandre right but what is it doing on a Micro Channel graphics card without a parallel port @tubetime I'd guess the parallel printer port chip is there so game controllers can be attached. @tubetime ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/IBM_PC_BBS @tubetime have the same card in full working order. Would not mind making it available if you require it |
unfortunately the card doesn't work. i think it is missing this socketed chip, which appears to be some sort of Micro Channel bus interface. rather important. i checked the power and ground pins and they don't match the 82C611/612 parts. it's something else.