MCA-Adapter Card Picture Contest


This is the first "Picture your MCA-cards" - Contest !
Tell me what you think ...

Purpose: I wanted to collect pictures of MCA-cards. Initially this was intended for a sort of private database, but I had the idea to share these pictures with the enthusiasts in the Internet to make card identification a bit easier.
This will -however- take some time and I actually ran out of space on AOL.
Therefore I have planned to buy a second account just for the MCA-related stuff sometime in 1998.

How to take part: Just look if you have an adapter, which is still missing in the list below. Take a good picture of it or simply use a flatbed scanner to scan it. Convert the picture to a height of 180 pixels and into GIF-format and send it to me via e-mail.
Please use a card-identification software - i.e. QCONFIG from PC-DOS 6.1 and above or my QBMCA - and add the Card-ID and name the file i.e. E001.GIF to make identification easier.
The final reworking (adding text and conversion into JPG) will be done later.
Example:


Picture supplied by Peter H. Wendt

What to win: Must confess that I'm still thinking about that.
Probably featuring a "Card Of The Week" - page ? Don't know. Any ideas ?

Of course everybody supplying one or more pictures will be mentioned in the 'Thanks' -page ... :-)

But taking part in this contest will help any MCA-enthusiast.
And this *is* an enthusiasts page anyway.
So why not attending it 'just for the honour' ?
To see the current Version of the "MCA-cards Picture Page" look here !
Thanks to Dennis Smith - who offered to store them on one of his net-accounts.
Pictures already taken
Last update: 19.03.2000

 New entries are printed bold


 Cards sorted by Card-ID:

 002D Madge Smart 16/4 Ringnode Adapter
 008E Kingston MC Master CPU Upgrade Adapter
 0092 NCR 53C700 SCSI Adapter
 0100 NCR StarLan Token Ring 16/4 Adapter
 0101 Proteon P1840 4 Mbit/s TR-Adapter
 0202 Proteon P1890 4-16 Mbit/s TR-Adapter
 0708 Buslogic BT640A SCSI-Adapter
 0A85 Olicom Token Ring 16/4 Adapter
 0F1F Adaptec AHA1640 SCSI-Controller
 0FDF MiCom Interlan NI9210 Ethernet Card
 16D4 Utimaco Safeboard
 3420 Alert A491 PS/2 Game Card
 5023 Online System PCM Audio R/P Unit
 5028 Emerald SCSI Tape Controller
 507E AMS MIO-20 2ser. IO-card, Rev. B
 507F AMS MIO-21 2ser./1par. IO-card, Rev. B
 5084 Creative Labs Soundblaster MCV CT-5320
 508C Trantor T228 SCSI Host Adapter (NEC)
 508E Trantor T260 SCSI Host Adapter
 5101 AMS MULTIP-1 Parallel Card Rev. B
 5103 Creative Labs SoundBlaster Pro MCV CT-5330
 5125 Tecmar QIC Tape Adapter
 5130 Piper Research SoundPiper 16
 5131 Vinca Quadrunner (Server Mirror Card)
 5138 Reply Vibra-16 Soundcard
 5150 ChipChat 16 Audiocard
 5323 Infosys SCSI Adapter
 5324 Infosys SCSI Adapter
 5333 National Intruments MC-GPIB
 5600 Cabletron Ethernet Card E3020
 5656 AMS MP-2 2par. IO-card, Rev. C
 568B Maynard QIC-02 Tape Adapter
 568D Maynard SCSI Tape Adapter
 57FE EV-817 Tape Drive Host Adapter
 57FE Streaming  Tape Adapter (short card / Alliance)
 5808 MPS TwinFAX 2400/9600 Modem-Card
 583E BORSU SCSI Tape Adapter
 5CCC IOtech Personal 466 Interface
 5CEC CEC IEEE-488 GPIB Adapter
 5FF8 Plus Passport Hardfile Adapter
 6000 Tiara Systems LanCard/E II
 6014 SMC PC110 Arcnet Adapter (Netware RX-Net/2)
 6018 Gateway G/Ethernet Controller
 601F HP ScanJet+ Adapter MC
 6023 Cumulus CURAM-16 Plus 8MB Multif. Ad.
 6042 3COM Etherlink Ethernet Adapter
 6042 3COM Etherlink Ethernet Adapter (earlier version)
 6060 IDEA 5250 Host Adapter N5251G MC short
 60C9 BOCA Bidirectional Printer card 1par.
 60E5 BOCA / QUADRAM 2 Ser. / 1 par. Adapter
 60E9 Future Domain SCSI-2 Adapter
 60E9 IBM PS/2 SCSI-2 Adapter/A
 6104 AMS MIO-21 2ser./1par. IO/card, old long Version
 6127 Future Domain MCS-700 SCSI Adapter
 612D DaynaTalk Localtalk Interface Card
 6147 Novell Key Card
 617E Intellicom PS8 8-port Serial Controller
 61B4 Caere Typist Interface
 61BF Intel SatisFAXtion Adapter
 61C7 AVM B1 active ISDN-Controller
 61C8 SMC EtherCard Plus (SMC8013 EP/A BNC/AUI)
 61C9 SMC EtherCard Plus (SMC8013 WP/A TP/AUI)
 6258 Alert A490 Serial Adapter
 6259 Alert A489 Parallel Adapter
 6263 Arco Products IDE Adapter 1070/1075 Rev. E
 6263 CMS Enhancements IDE Adapter (Arco OEM)
 627A Kingston DataCard KTM-DC32/127
 627C 3COM EtherLink III MCA (3C529 BNC/AUI)
 627D 3COM EtherLink III MCA (3C529 TP/AUI)
 628B Intel EtherExpress Adapter
 62E9 PM14400 Internal Modem
 6323 BOCport ser./par. Adapter
 6343 Artisoft Lantastic (TM) 2Mb/s Network Card
 63B3 CH-Products Gamecard-III Automatic MCA
 63CA HP StarLan-10 Adapter, Rev. 1.1
 6508 Artisoft PDUIC 508 Arcnet Interface Adapter
 6571 Keithley Instruments Series 500 Interface
 677F Attachmate Advanced 3270 Adapter (primary ID)
 678B Neotech MS/2 2-Serial
 67E7 Kraft G/3+ Adapter
 6A51 IBEX SerCom-2 for Nixdorf Emulation
 6A93 ISDN-S/2 Adapter (unknown MFG.)
 6B83 Cray LAN PS-x1x4/x5 Network Adapter
 6B84 NCP/e Multiboard 32 3270 Gateway card
 6B9B Specialix SI-2
 6BA5 Comtes SDX-Adapter
 6BBE Miniware Tech. M06060 Ser./Par. Printer Adapter
 6BF2 KORTEX 2400 baud Modem
 6C06 Sanyo CD-ROM Adapter
 6C0F Roland Midi Processing Unit MPU-1
 6D6D EICON Laser Printer Adapter
 6DAC Logitech Scanman Adapter
 6DEB Multi-Tech Systems MT1432ES Modem
 6E6C IBM Audio Capture and Playback Adapter (ACPA Rev. A)
 6E6C IBM Audio Capture and Playback Adapter (Ultimedia Rev. C)
 6E6C IBM Audio Capture and Playback Adapter (Long Card Rev. A)
 6E6E EICON Single Port Communications Adapter
 6E78 DCA Irma-2 3270 Host Connection Card
 6E79 DCA Irma-3 Convertible (ISA/MCA 3270 host card)
 6EC6 SMC TokenCard Elite /A 8115-T
 6EDD US Robotics Courier Modem
 6F01 Hayes 2400 bd Smartmodem 2400P
 6F91 Synaptel SYNMPI/PS ISDN Adapter
 6F91 Synaptel SYNMPI/PS ISDN Adapter (older version)
 6FC0 Western Digital (SMC) WD8003E/A Ethernet Ad.
 6FC2 Western Digital (SMC) WD8003W/A Ethernet Ad.
 6FCB Practical Peripherals 2400 Baud Modem Board
 6FEB DigiBoard MC/16i (16 async. ports)
 7002 AST Advantage/2 286 w. Ser./Par. Option
 7007 Hypertech Hyperam 32-16
 7016 BocaRAM Mod. 50/60 Memory Expansion
 7017 Hypertech Hyperam Mod. 50-60 8MB Memory Expansion
 701A Calera Truescan OCR Adapter
 702F Ungermann & Bass Ethernet Adapter
 704A CPI 2400 Baud Modem Board
 704E IBM Audio-Video Capture (AVC) Adapter NTSC
 7057 Hypertech Hyperam Mod. 50-60 8MB Memory Expansion
 706F AOX MicroMaster 386
 707E IRWIN MC4100 Tape Controller (QIC)
 7083 AST Advantage 386 0-8MB Memory Adapter
 70D0 Kingston KTM 16000/386 Memory Expansion
 70D0 Kingston KTM 16000/386 Memory Expansion (later Version)
 70D4 Kingston KTM 609/16 Plus 2 80286 Memory Expansion
 7154 Hypertech Ethernet Combo (BNC + RJ45)
 7154 Novell Netware NIC (BNC + AUI)
 7188 Mountain QIC-02 Tape Controller
 71D0 Kingston KTM-64/8 MemoryExpansion Board Rev. C
 7430 XTEND MC32 Memory Expansion Board
 7491 Tecmar MicroRam SC Extended Memory Adapter
 75FF Trantor SCSI Host Adapter
 7788 Intel Above Board 2 Plus
 7A7A Boca Research BOCARAM/2 Plus Memory Expansion
 7D7F Orchid Ramquest Extra 16/32
 7EC0 Acculogic SIMMply RAM 32-bit Memory
 7F01 Procom Technology SCSI Enabler
 7FAB Hyperam MC Extend /S
 7FFA Iomega PC4B-50 SCSI Host Adapter
 803B SPEA Graphiti Flash 1P Video Adapter 1MB
 805B ELSA XHR Gemini/2 - 858 Video
 8080 Micro Display Artist 10/16 VGA
 8088 ATI 8514/Ultra+ Video Adapter
 8089 ATI Graphics Ultra Pro MCA (VGA Enabled)
 808A ATI Graphics Ultra Pro MCA (VGA Disabled)
 80A6 Cornerstone ImageAccel Adapter
 80B3 IBM M-Motion Video Adapter w. cables
 80B7 Radius SVGA MultiView MC
 80C5 Artist Graphics 1000 MC Series Video Card

 80F8 Matrox PG2-1281 Hi-Res Graphic Controller base board
 ---- Matrox PG2-1281 Hi-Res Graphic Controller memory board

 8102 Colorgraphics Corp. Dual VGA
 8176 MVGA Multi-VGA Adapter
 8D77 IBM RS/6000 32-bit SCSI Adapter
 8DF4 IBM Image Adapter (3MB)
 8EE3 IBM RS/6000 Video Adapter FRU 43G0681

 8EE6 IrisVision by SGI - MC Geometry Engine
 ---- IrisVision by SGI - MC Raster Video Engine
 ---- IrisVision by SGI - 24-bit Frame Buffer
 ---- IrisVision by SGI - Optional Z-Buffer

 8EF5 IBM RS/6000 Ethernet Busmaster Adapter
 8EFC IBM Fast/Wide SCSI Adapter
 8EFE IBM SCSI Adapter without cache (long / old)
 8EFE IBM SCSI Adapter without cache (short / new)
 8EFF IBM SCSI Adapter with cache old / external Terminator
 8EFF IBM SCSI Adapter with cache new / internal Terminator

 8F70 IBM RIC 512K Portmaster Adapter Base card
 ---- IBM RIC Portmaster 8 x RS-232 daughtercard

 8F82 IBM Fast/Wide Streaming Raid Adapter ("Cheetah")
 8F93 IBM PS/2 Server Guard Adapter
 8FA0 IBM Token-Ring 16/4 LAN-Streamer Adapter MC32
 8FA2 IBM Token-Ring 16/4 Auto LAN-Streamer Adapter MC32
 8FA4 IBM Token-Ring 16/4 LAN-Streamer Adapter MC16
 8FA8 IBM EtherStreamer MC32 Adapter
 8FAA IBM Dual LANStreamer Adapter MC32
 8FBB IBM Server 95 Raid Adapter ("Passplay")
 8FC8 IBM Token-Ring 16/4 Busmaster Server Adapter
 8FD6 IBM Audiovation Adapter
 8FDA IBM XGA-2 Video Adapter 1MB
 8FDB IBM XGA-1 Video Adapter 1MB
 8FE0 IBM WaveRunner ISDN Digital Modem
 8FEB IBM Windsurfer Audio/Modem Card
 90EE IBM SVGA Adapter short
 D77F IBM 4755 Cryptographic Adapter
 DDFF IBM ESDI Harddisk Adapter
 DDFF Western Digital ESDI Adapter (WD1007-MC)
 DEFF IBM Multi-Protocol Adapter
 DF7F IBM 3363 Optical Disk Adapter
 DFBF IBM 6157 Streaming Tape Adapter
 DFFA IBM 5.25" Disk Drive Adapter
 DFFD IBM ST-506 MFM Harddisk Adapter
 DFFD IBM Mod. 50-021 MFM Harddisk Adapter
 E000 IBM Token-Ring 4MB/s Adapter long
 E000 IBM Token-Ring 4MB/s Adapter short
 E001 IBM Token-Ring 16/4 Adapter long
 E001 IBM Token-Ring 16/4 Adapter short
 E001 Madge 'Straight Blue' Token-Ring 16/4 Adapter
 E001 IBM Auto 16/4 Token Ring MC Adapter
 E001 Hypertech 16/4 Token-Ring Adapter
 E04F IBM 3119 Scanner Adapter
 E1FF IBM 3270 Card (short) Rev. B
 E7FF IBM 3270 Card (long) Rev. A
 E7FF IBM 3270 Card (long, older version) Rev. A
 E7FF Attachmate Advanced 3270 Adapter (secondary ID)
 EDD0 IBM passive 8-port serial Adapter
 EEFF IBM Dual Asynchronous Adapter

 EF7F IBM 8514/A Video Adapter
 ---- IBM 8514/A Video Adapter 512KB Memoryboard
 ---- IBM 8514/A Video Adapter 1MB Memoryboard
 EF7F ELSA Winner /2 - 1024 (incl. 8514/A Emu.)

 EFCD IBM Wide Area Connector (WAC)
 EFDA IBM Two Slots PCMCIA Adapter
 EFDC IBM ActionMedia II Display Adapter
 EFE2 IBM PS/2 FaxConcentrator Adapter
 EFE5 IBM PS/2 Adapter/A for Ethernet Networks
 EFEF IBM Baseband Network Adapter
 
 EFF0 IBM X.25 Coprocessor Adapter
 EFF0 IBM RIC Multiport Adapter /A
 EFF0 IBM Multiport Interface Board (2 Ser.)

 EFF6 IBM 4216 Postscript Pageprinter Adapter
 ---- IBM 4216 Postscript Pageprinter Adapter Memoryboard

 F7F7 IBM 2-8MB 80286 XMA Memory Expansion w. Rom
 FAFF IBM 2-6MB 80386 Memory Expansion
 FCF0 Multi-I/O 1ser./1par. various brands
 FCFF IBM 2-8MB 80386 Memory Expansion
 FDDE IBM Enh. 4-14MB 80386 Memory Expansion w. ROM
 FDDF IBM 2-14MB 80386 Memory Expansion (downlevel card)
 FDDF IBM 4-14MB 80386 Enhanced Memory Expansion (last level)
 FEFE IBM 1-2MB 80286 Memory Expansion
 FEFE MIO-card 2s/1p + Mem, long card, unknown MFG
 FFE0 IBM LAN Adapter for Ethernet /A (old version)
 FFE0 IBM LAN Adapter for Ethernet /A (new version)
 FFF8 IBM /36 Workstation Adapter (short)

 NO-ID Cards:

 ---- IBM 360KB 5.25" FDD Adapter (passive card)
 ---- IBM Ext. CH2-card for F/W Raid (passive card)
 ---- Ventek PS-2000 Video Subsystem (adds to planar VGA)

 Memory Modules, Upgrades and Processorboards:

 ---- 92F1319 Model 95XP LED Panel
 ---- 92F0259 Server 95A LED Panel

 ---- PS/2 Model 80 1MB Memory Daughter Card
 ---- PS/2 Model 80 2MB Memory Daughter Card
 ---- PS/2 Model 80 2MB Memory Daughter Card by Kingston
 ---- PS/2 Model 80 4MB Memory Daughter Card
 ---- PS/2 Model 80 4MB Memory Daughter Card by CUMULUS
 ---- PS/2 Model 80 4MB Memory Daughter Card by Hypertech

 ---- 256K Level-2 cache 17ns module FRU 64F0199 (Type-1 cpu)
 ---- 256K Level-2 cache 12ns module FRU 92F0050 (92F0048 only !)
 ---- 256K Level-2 WB-cache module FRU 06H3307 (77i / 77s)
 ---- 256K Level-2 Cache FRU 06H3307 (Server 320/520 MCA)

 ---- 1MB Video Memory expansion FRU 82G1794 (77i / 77s)

 ---- PS/2 Mod. 70/80 486DX-33 Upgrade, FRU 92F0436
 ---- Hypertech Hyperace Mod. 70/80 486DX-33 Upgrade
 ---- IBM 486SLC2 Processor Upgrade 8556/8557
 ---- IBM 486LSC3 Processor Upgrade 9556/9557

 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 04G3884 (386DX-20)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 92F0065 (486SX-20)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 64F0201 (486DX-25)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 64F0198 (486DX-33)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 64F0198 (old version "1")
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 64F0198 (old version "2")
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 92F0145 (486DX2-66)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-1, FRU 92F0048 (486DX-50)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-2, FRU 92F0079 (486SX-25)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-2, FRU 92F0161 (486DX2-25/50)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-3, FRU 57F1579 (486DX-50)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-4, FRU 61G2343 (486DX2-33/66)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-4, FRU 52G9362 (Pentium 60)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-4, FRU 92F0120 (Pentium 66)
 ---- PS/2 CPU TYPE-4, FRU 06H3739 (Pentium 90)

 ---- Server 720 CPU-board FRU 75H9686 (Pentium 133)
 ---- Server 720 CPU-board FRU 75H9686 (Pentium 166)
 ---- PC Server 720 Bridge Adapter, FRU 07H1107
 ---- PC Server 720 Memory Adapter, FRU 71G0696

Using a flatbed scanner: I know - it sounds weird, but it works fine.
Some time ago I bought a cheap 3-pass Microtek Scanmaker II flatbed scanner. Some day I decided to try taking a picture of an MCA-card.
I layed the card on the scanner surface, layed a large piece of white paper over it and put a thick computer-magazine (German magazine 'ct ) on that paper to avoid movements of the card during the scan-process (the Microtek makes a lot vibrations).

Surprisingly it went very well. The original TIFs created by my scanner-program were good enough to even read the writings on the chips. The backglare of the metallic components was not that bad as I thought.

Here are some base datas:

  • The base frame-size for a full-lenght MCA-card is 4111 x 1441
  • The down-scale factor is 50% to result in a 2055 x 720 pixel picture
  • Brightness set to +10, contrast at +/-0
  • The gained TIF-image has 24-bit color and about 4.5MB in size
  • Rotating it by 90 degrees
  • Finally down-scaled to fixed 500 pixels horizontal -or-
  • Scaled it down to 180 pixel vertical for shorter cards
    In either case the aspect ratio must be kept !
  • Saving as GIF image with 256 colours
    This maintains the picture-data and will only decrease colour depth !
  • Adding the text -and-
  • Save it as JPG-file which has 16.7 mio colors again but lower filesize

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