Ha, awesome! That card looked like it possessed more computing power than
the machine it was inserted into.

=]

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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:26 AM, John Forecast via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Rob,
>     That’s probably a J-Video board, a prototype built by DEC SRC for the
> J300 series of video and audio adapters. You can find more information in
> Digital Technical Journal, Volume 7, Number 4. Around that time, mid-1994,
> I was working on the software for a PC ISA board which would inter-operate
> with J-Video to provide network-based desktop video conferencing (see DTJ
> Volume 5, Number 2). After 2 groups that were working on this were shutdown
> within a month of each other, I decided it was time to leave the company. I
> don’t know if any further development occurred.
>
>   John.
>
> On Jul 17, 2017, at 6:42 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I finally got something out of my newly acquired DECstation 5000/240. It
> > contained a mystery adapter which reports itself as:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1: JV01A-AA    DEC    x0.06     TCF0 (MultiMedia Engineering)
> >
> >
> >
> > And when I got the detailed configuration it reported:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1: JV01A-AA    DEC    x0.06     TCF0 (Audio, Decomp, Comp)
> >
> >
> >
> > The usual suspects:
> >
> >  Ken Correll, Tim Hellman  (a.k.a. 'The Lab Boys')
> >
> >  Bernie Szabo, Victor Bahl (Code 'R' Us)
> >
> >  Bob Ulichney              (Key grip)
> >
> >  Greg Wallace              (The big cheese)
> >
> >
> >
> > Looks like possibly an experimental adapter produced by DEC. Anyone know
> > anything about it? I can tell you that it looks like it has an FPGA on
> it,
> > and a large chip marked "C-Cube".
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
>
>

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