0008 This is an "ultra high resolution" PC video card from 1987 

EIZO still works in the market, in fact they develop high end monitors now! an excellent tech.

That box may be empty, but it's actually filled with Austrian air, a collectors item.

I remember being amazed to have 1280x1024 on a "modern" monitor back in 2002, so this card having it so much earlier, that would have been mind-blowing at the time... :D

Amazing to say, EIZO, a Japanese company, is still in business, and has been since 1968! What a great find!

Now this is a blast from the past! Thanks for taking us on a stroll down memory lane.

@6:03 HAAAA! Since 1992, I've always wondered what would connect to that "feature" connector on old Trident cards! At the ripe age of 40, 29 years later, I FINALLY see one!

BGI Driver is the Borland Graphics Interface. That means you could write/compile software that used the BGI and it would run on this card.

Talking about empty boxes used as packaging, when I brought my Thomann electronic drum kit they used empty boxes as part of the packaging and the boxes were actually printed with the words "Empty Box X"!

I had no idea EIZO made such things. I was a big fan of their CRTs in the 90s

I remember setting one of these up for a dentist back in the day. He was an early adopter of digital imaging and needed the high res card for x-rays (scanned films no digital x-rays yet)

Neat card. It would have been cool to see it running windows in high res..

Used to have one of these in the CAD workstation I used in Austria - with the accompanying EIZO monitor

It's awesome that you upload the disk images.

Cheers from Austria. Your channels are awesome. 👍

Oh I miss my old 1600 1200 monitor, basically HD but a long time ago considering

Oh the pain when he opened the box from the end and not the giant treasure chest flap on the front lol love the content Adrian

Wow! That is cool! I have a few cards like this, never got them to work!

I hope you're able to source some of those unusually-sized simms. It'd be really cool to see it in its full-colour glory.

EIZO is an interesting company. Back in the early LCD era, I have found an Eizo 24 inch CRT monitor that was capable of running at 1920x1200 resolution.

It's awesome this one has the manual. I hope to see this in a future video with more comprehensive demonstrations, but that resolution in 1987 is amazing! I had trouble view that resolution on a monitor built in the mid 90s. lol

I've got two Ultra-High Resolution displays I bought back around 2000 attached to my system, along with a 4K monitor. The advance of technology is always astounding.

Hmm mini mail-call as in just one product. For me a mini mail call can be as long as is necessary to bring over most knowledge of product presented. Thank you very much for all the wonderfully brought content. Keep up the good work.

The company is actually still around, the produce high end color correct monitors for photo/video editing

Remember myself at 1992 seeing 1152x882 in 24-bit color mode on obscenely expensive Mac workstation with 21" color monitor and Radius graphics card. It was something unbelievable then.

re: Word Perfect - You needed the drivers for the equation editor, which used graphics mode.

I applaud you for your commitment to digital archiving. Could you please either make a link to your online contributions that we may more easily find them? Thank you!

I love old hardware like this so much!

Some of those cards also had a driver that converted hp plotter output to the screen for runner of opengl as a driver for Autocad, and wysiwyg word processors

Gotta say, I'm really liking this "Byte-Size" Mail Call format.

Some remarks to the CGA legacy, explaining the slow scrolling and the "display switch not proper" message: The classic IBM PC/XT BIOS includes a MDA BIOS and a CGA BIOS (actually, the cards are similar enough that they share one BIOS implementation with different parameters). The PC/XT mainboard included a pair of DIP switches putting the mainboard BIOS into one of four modes: 1) Configure the internal video BIOS for MDA operation 2) Configure the internal video BIOS for CGA operation at 40 column mode 3) Configure the internal video BIOS for CGA operation at 80 column mode 4) Do not try to initialize CGA or MDA, but call a BIOS extension at C000:0, if present. This setting is often called "EGA/PGA/VGA" or something like that. With the AT, the display switch was moved to the CMOS setup, usually just a single jumper remained that chooses whether a monochrome or a color video adapter is supposed to be the primary adapter. Either the message on your PC actually means "CMOS display type mismatch", or your board does in fact stilll have the full display mode switch on board. The point of the error message is that the mainboard is set up to run in mode 4 (external video BIOS), but it didn't detect an external video BIOS. Furthermore, it detected a CGA-compatible card, so it auto-switched to mode 3 (CGA BIOS support in 80 column mode). The slow scrolling is a feature of the on-board CGA BIOS. In 80-column text modes, the CGA memory bus is utilized 100% by the character scanout process. As the CGA card doesn't dare to block the ISA bus until horizontal or vertical refresh is active (which would also block any kind of DMA operation *and* *memory* *refresh*), any video memory read/write cycles during the active display period steals cycles from the graphics chip. The result is that the graphics chip uses the data read/written by the processor instead of the data it actually needs, so it displays wrong characters or colors (I don't remember whether only character, only attribute or both kind of cycles could be stolen, but I suspect it's only one kind). To prevent the display of "snow", the integrated CGA BIOS scrolls the screen only during the blanking period.

There was an advanced universal VESA video driver for DOS and Windows 3.1x which used to cost a fair bit for a long time then the company made it unsupported freeware. It supported a boatload of video cards and chips, including getting the high resolutions and color depths working in Windows 3.1x when there was no manufacturer support. But I can't bloody remember the name of the software package! I probably have it stored away somewhere on an ancient CD-R or spanned ZIP on several floppy drives.

I just subscribed to your channel. The kitty condo nailed it.

Sun workstations used to use V-SIMMs too. I wonder if they work in this?

ah, more TIGA cards. The memories..... I'll look for the official TI documentation and disks. It was a 2 or 3 manual set with some wonderful floppies. For example, the disks had a bunch of fonts that could be loaded onto the card. Most TIGA drivers are generic, as the boards were just reference hardware from TI. I'd bet that the drivers for this card will work with your other card.

I have a similar EIZO card that I used extensively back in the mid '90s, except mine's 1600x1200 B&W or lower res with 4 shades of grey. It came with a 21" monochrome monitor (some model of EIZO Flexscan CRT). Windows 3.11 looked a little ridiculous with so much desktop realestate.The ribbon cable is to connect to the feature connector of the existing VGA card to pass through "standard" modes and the leadless D15 has resistors in it to fool the existing VGA into detecting a monitor. It was not uncommon for VGA BIOSes of the era to hang the computer if no monitor was present. Not sure if things are exactly the same for this card, as mine is an "addon only" card that requires a VGA card to boot the machine.

I believe the TMS340 processors were designed by an engineer that was also responsible for the TMS9995, the successor to the 9900 in the TI99/4a (the 9995 was to be used in the TI99/8 an aborted successor to the /4a). The concept of combining the video processor on the same silicon as a general processor was ahead of it's time. TI could not get Microsoft to get behind the TMS340 as a Windows card, and the proprietary vram (seems like TI never learned that lesson) was too expensive.

Other side of this card: They were typically sold with a (BIG) fixed frequency monitor. Generally as students we had to lug these beasts home, and to get the monitors working it was a matter of switching plugs between a normal monitor and the "beast" while having "Scitech Display Doctor" installed to repropgam the sync frequencies to suit the "Beast" monitor! Only way us poor students could afford a high res monitor in the day to do our CAD work! All on windows 98! Often we would have to wire up some logic converters to invert the sync signals to make them compatible with VGA. The VGA to BNC cable you showed suggest this is what the card was designed for...

HP UX monitors also used to have the vga to bnc connector option. I recognize that cable!

Think of that resolution in 1990! That raw power!!!!

Back in the day... My family bought me a 386. I got a Targa card with it. 1024x768 with upgrades for Truevision aka 16.7m colors. I had the best graphics card at the time, but it was absolutely dog slow. And it came with a literal binder of discs to interface with all the software I never used. It did have a 13w3 adapter. Only much later did I know what that was for. My second PC was a 486/Delta pc. Never did find the tpc unit that matched it, aka the Delta transputer card.

oh man it uses the TMS34010!! I SO wanted one of those for my Amiga!

In 1987, 1280x1024 was unheard of. 640x480 was the highest resolution I had ever seen up to that time. And that was on a PS/2 with IBM's newest VGA card -- a very pricey system in its own right. This card alone would've probably cost double what that entire PS/2 system did (including its monitor) -- and then you'd have to get the 1280x1024 monitor on top of that, adding many more thousands of dollars to the cost. Some *seriously* professional CAD equipment for that time. Very, *very* expensive, and *extremely* rare -- excellent donation!! Congrats!

The VGA to BNC cable wasn't particularly expensive, only slightly more so than a regular VGA cable. I used them all the time with the 19" and 21" high-resolution RGB monitors I had. I've always been a hi-res junkie.

Will there ever be a followup to the AT&T Unix PC? That was really interesting looking, and if you're able to get the drive formatted maybe you can get the OS loaded.

I have an early EIZO professional grade LCD. It cost something like $1500 when it came out.

what really caught my attention was while playing Virtual pool in dos. There was this option for Diamond Viper P9000 accel. It was the only video card to support the 1024x768 in DOS for Virtual Pool 1. I always dreamed what it would look and play like.

To get some idea of the 6 MIPS speed, I ran the SysInfo benchmark tool on my Amiga 1200 with 28Mhz accelerator card (and 68020 processor on board) and got 5.5 MIPS... and the A1200 came out 5 years later. So not too shabby for a card from 1987 even if it's lacking the graphics memory to do 256 colors.

Damn! That thing is BEAUTIFUL God damn it... Wow... im jealous.

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If this is really from 1987 then that is damn good. Back in those days I was heavy into assembly level work on graphics standards. The IBM 8514/a bus master Microchannel XGA card with matching 1024x768 monitor was the standard for high-res graphics and it cost something like $5000 in 1987 money. My work environment in the mid-80s included a dedicated 1024x768 display that cost twice as much - 2 years earlier. The 8514/a board alone was nearly $1500. At the time, we thought we'd never see affordable hi-res graphics. The rise of ATI and rapid propagation of standards was astonishing to us.

I remember getting a computer at work in 1996 that went up to 1152 x 864 and I was very happy.

Thumbs up for the kitty condo!

oh, man. used to have one of those in a dx33. nostalgia central :D

I remember the video expansion cable. In 1997 I couldn't afford a dvd player, but I could get a dvd rom drive and a hollywood+ mpeg2 card for maybe $200 or so. It was truly an overlay. If you took a screenshot, you just got a pink square where the movie was.

At least your box of air (and the air inside) were undamaged in shipping. 🤣

neato card! ... with pcb places and software available.... maybe reverse engy-near VSIM modules?

Just watched one of this earlier, having one more, is just gold!

Those are 60-pin SIMM slots, not 59-pin (I counted). Often you'd either label the odd end pins, or even end pins, depending on which side of the connector you've got the labels on, but I've never seen a SIMM slot with an odd number of pins.

I am not familiar with DGIS graphical standard. Could anyone here link me a wiki or technical document that has layman explanations in it?

Someone else already beat me to the comment on RetroBrite for that yellowed box . But BTW: Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" predates "Inception" by a few years.

Wow, Eizo is older than I thought. First product I owned from them was the Foris FG2421, one of the first 120Hz monitors. .. and I haven't heard anything about them since.

I used to have the 21" version of the monitor for that high res board, It was @ 150 lbs and if you had an mda and an ega/vga you could use triple display in 1991.

Got a 5:4 display, and are those drivers expecting square pixels?

did you end up making a full on video about this thing? if you did can you link it to me please?

Hi Adrian. Where did you upload the software diskettes?? P.S. thank you for the really awesome content! :D

The Eizo video board is more complex than the main PC board itself...

I think the Video Memory from older Apple Macintoshes might work, Performa and Quadra series to be precise.

I have a similar card that's coreco branded, can someone help me find drivers for it?

Adrian - this is Awesome ... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Make a full video about this card, running Windows and whatever software you can do, that sort of Kidney! PLEASE!!! *Ahem* ... We, your beloved community, would appreciate it especially if you might devote time to make a fuller video of this device. Kind Regards, The Internet.

BITD I used a clone 486 PC with a Hercules Graphics Station card and a 20" NEC 4D or maybe 5D Multisync monitor and a dedicated puck driven tablet as an AutoCAD "Workstation". I also had a separate mono monitor on the PC for the commands. I think it was based round a TI chip and had an onboard VGA chipset.

that was one impressive card for its day

Such a lovely card.

I remember bing amazed when saw video playing on a PC monitor in a radio shack way back when.

I'm fairly certain that the BGI driver is for the Borland Graphics Interface that was part of Turbo Pascal/Turbo C

I got an ELSA XHR Gemini200-2 TIGA card, but no manual and it has a ton of jumpers. Maybe one day it will be found.

The video card needs additional ram. My 1st PC was a pre used 486 SX. PC Techs here in the Philippines says that SX is just a 386 not a 486

First time in ages I’ve seen 5 1/4” disks with write protect stickers.

11:05 I don’t think that manual was for OS/2 drivers. OS/2 1.1 was the first version to include Presentation Manager and it wasn’t available until late 1988. Also, the GUI for OS/2 was called “Presentation Manager” not “Presentation”, so titling the manual “Presentation Driver” would have been really awkward language and EIZO is not a fly-by-night operation to make a mistake like that. On the other hand, the card might have been manufactured or packaged after 1987 regardless of the component’s copyright dates. Therefore if the manual is really for OS/2 it would mean that the card has to be newer than Adrian initially assumed.

Damn that's ultra high spec for 1987!

Adrian, this is probably the wrong place to ask, but how do you like your head mounted magnifiers? Can you share a brand name or amazon link? Since I've been around as long or longer that most of the stuff on this channel, I'm looking for something to improve my macro vision.

BGI is the standard the graphics libraries used, that came with Borland Turbo C++ and probably Turbo Pascal as well. Lame, lumpy libraries which anyone would ignore once somebody told them the base address for VGA RAM and the right BIOS call to set it up. The BGI contained a load of functions for line drawing and stuff, mode setting, just the basic graphical stuff. The ones for CGA and EGA came with the installation. Possibly VGA but I never got that working. So the one on your disk presumably is the version for super-rad-l33t-awesome VGA. Ow! My retinas are bleeding!

that is some insane resolution from 1987

I wonder if this would work with the monitor from my HP-UX workstation. It's fixed frequency and the computer outputs 1280x960 at 60Hz.

Not sure if the "Scitech display doctor" VESA driver will be able to dig a bit more ability under DOS, worth to try.

It look wide as a keyboard .... thank for telling us there once such a gpa design like this.

Xtra large super mini mail call. This is heavy Doc.

how many hashes it produces?

- Ultra high resolution? - Is a pc graphics card? - It's in stock? Forget the 3090...

Woot! Same chip as the other one (TMS34010), so drivers may work for both? I'm a bit confused: 59-pin SIMM? Oh... it's a SIMM, so it has two redundant rows of 59 pins?

beloved autocad card : ) HTL Steyr

i wonder if there would be a way to make ram modules for that

I acquired an AT286 PC a few months ago that had one of those TIGA cards in it. (A Cornerstone Technologies card with 256K VRAM and a 9 pin D-Sub video connector with 1024x768@67Hz output.) Problem is that even the NEC Multisync XL that I have can't seem to display the image from it. I know the card is working properly, but the 67KHz horizontal synch and 67Hz vertical synch signals from it are too high (and very non-standard) for any monitor I have. I'm guessing the 286 was used for either CAD or desktop publishing. And like you say, I can find no information at all on the card, probably because Cornerstone Technologies went out of business in the early 90's, an the company name was subsequently used again in 2001 for a totally unrelated business and they provide nothing of use for finding any information on the original business. It's really a shame since these TIGA cards were among the first to have actual graphics acceleration. I can't wait to see a video demoing how these worked in the older PC's.

Well that's the first time I've ever seen anything plug into a VGA feature connector... It's funny I saw the cable and thought that's exactly what it was for, even having never seen it in use.

Oh, that's a TIGA graphics card. Those were really great as of performance. It took them a while to get a VISA 2.0 compatibility driver for them to use them in DOS programs designed for VGA.

You could add ram on old gpu???

So what's the hash rate on that thing.

LOL! 0:04 - The opening lap is facing you, with rounded corners & a thumb-hole in the center. XD The irony... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

wow.... 1280x1024 from an 1987 made card... this is awesome

I actually got one of those for free in 1989. I had the fully upgraded memory to boot.

EIZO makes a lot of medical displays, so it was probably paired with one at one time.