Re: Need help ID'ing SS video card for IIgs

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quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1) wrote:

>   I bought a IIgs this afternoon with a treasure trove of cards inside, one
of
>which I don't know what it is.
>
>  It is made by Sequential Systems, and has a VGA and RGB output.  Has some
>VRAM next to the video out connectors.  Copyright 1995.  Several chips have a
>copyright for Oak Technologies.  One of the chips has a sticker that has the
>word Zorro on it.

This is one of the rarest gems of the IIGS world.  That is not a
VGA connector there, it is an SVGA connector.  You have a
24-bit SVGA graphics card for the Apple IIGS.  If you have
ShrinkIt! GS, I can email you some software that takes
advantage of it and/or provide URLs for Second Sight aware
software.

Most people can't buy this card anymore even if they wanted
to, so it might fetch something if you don't want to keep it.
Collectors would be interested as well as IIGS power users.

>  Also in the IIgs was a ZIP GSX card, a Sequential Systems RamFAST SCSI Card,
>and a 4 Meg RAM card from Pacemark Technologies, and a little sound adapter
>board.
>
>Raymond

All good stuff.  This is a great find.  You may be one of those
people who found a treasure in a thrift shop if that's where
you got the IIGS because as most folks here would tell you,
one can find a hundred Apple IIs and not one Zip or RamFAST
card let alone a Second Sight card.  Part the system and
sell the individual cards and you will easily be able to get
several hundred dollars for your find.  Or keep the computer
and use it.  You'd be hard press to build a similar system in
the future if you let any of the pieces go.

The sound adapter is more likely a sound input board than a
sound input one judging from the size.  No big deal.  The IIGS'
wavetable synthesis chip is built in so it has 32-channel
wavetable sound without the need for an additional sound
card.