1. Google gave me two hits on this one. One guy asking what it was and another telling him to check Apple System Profiler, but no info. It has no ports, no cable connectors and the main chip is a Ti 343s1147-3 1994 Apple. cam out of an 8500.
That sounds an awful lot like the Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator PCI Card. It accelerates QuickDraw 3D routines on older PCI PowerMacs. If you've got something fairly new, though, you should dump it - the "newer" stock PCI PowerMacs do QuickDraw better (think the 6400/6500/5400/5500 and maybe Mach5 8600).
If the card looks like this, then that's definitely what it is. <http://hotline.kicks-ass.net/data/quickdraw3dcard.jpg>
This is an interesting card, but it has VERY limited utility at best. Chuck it, or sell it on eBay for $5. Or add it to your collection, but don't think it will help you out today. Virtually any QD3D RAVE 3D video card will give you better performance than this card paired with` the Mac's built-in video.
2. Came out of the same 8500, Main chip is an ATI 3D Rage II, has Mac monitor, t.v out, vid in, S-vid in ports and a bios looking chip that has a paper label that says "PCI mach64-VR 113-37101-114 1996
That sounds like the ATI Xclaim VR. It's a decent card, and if you get the external TV Tuner Pod, it can do TV on the monitor connected to the card. It has some nifty features. The Mach64 chip is pretty outdated now, though.
3. Came out of a PC has an SVGA port and has a square heatsink over what I guess is the main chip and has a Bios looking chip that is an AMIC A276308A-70
Dunno. Trident Microsystems (who are they?) video card of some sort - I suspect it's Windows only.
4. Really kewl looking video card out of a PC (sure hope it is Maccable) It is a sandwich card that uses only ne PCI slot, but takes up two port spaces out the back of the box. The main card has a t.v. tuner on it and has a co-ax port and an SVGA port. The daughter card has RCA red white yellow video in ports S-video in/out ports and a yellow RCA video out port. Main chip is an ATI Rage II+DVD
Although I've never actually seen one, this sounds a bit like the ATI All-In-Wonder. The All-In-Wonder has a TV Tuner, can do video capture & output, and supports 3D acceleration of some sort. This one _might_ also support DVD decoding. To give you an idea of the vintage, the ATI Rage II+DVD is the same chip in the original beige G3 (rev A). This chip, while not a dedicated hardware DVD decoder, can off-load some of the software decoding tasks from the CPU to itself and help to accelerate software MPEG2 video decoding. Sadly, Apple never implemented this feature on the rev A beige G3.
The All-In-Wonder can only be used on PCs - there are no Mac drivers for it. But that's okay, because the Xclaim VR will do all that (sans DVD playback) while using only one PCI slot (if you get the external TV tuner pod). Additionally, there is a more powerful (in terms of QD3D RAVE, anyway) Xclaim VR using either the Rage Pro or the Rage Pro 128 chip.
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