Re: Mystery DEC ZLXP-like card

From: Ben Myers (_at_)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:14:13 GMT

One reseller of DEC hardware identifies this card as
70-32300-01 PBXGC-AA GRAPHICS

hPaq's parts list shows:
PV-PCI MAIN MODULE ASSEMBLY

A PDF for AlphaStation 500/266 and 500/333 from the hPaq web site indicates that
PBXGC-AA is a ZLXp-L1 24-plane double-buffered Pixelvision graphics card, with
24-bit Z-buffer. It has 16MB of on-board memory, which was really a lot for a
1995-vintage graphics card. The price tag back then was impressive, too. Over
$2000.

Tempus fugit... Ben Myers

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:30:38 +0000 (UTC), cdl@deeptow.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
wrote:

>I have in my hands (formerly in my AlphaStation 255) a card that I thought
>was a DEC ZLXP-something. It is the same size and shape, and has the
>same metal handle on the back end, with model number 74-47802-01 A03.
>I suppose that is the description of the handle, not the card.
>
>Other identifying features:
>
>On the back side there are 16 RAM chips. and three bar-coded labels with
>printed legends: 54-24289-02
> KA628RAWCN
> 70-32300-01 KA630RESMS
>
>On the front side there are 16 more RAM chips, no bar-coded labels.
>Major other chips, starting from panel end and working toward handle:
> Cirrus Logic CL-GD524-80QC-C
> IBM 37RGB561CF17-B 03H9322 PALETTE DAC
> VLSI DC7620B
> VLSI VY06576 DC7350D (almost 2" square, w. heat sink)
>
>The SRM console identifies it as "Digital PV-PCI Graphics Controller"
>NetBSD identifies it as:
>"vga0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 Digital Equipment product 0x0017 (rev 0x01)"
>
>Whatever it is, it doesn't work with X in NetBSD 1.6.1
>
> carl
>--
> carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
> clowenst@ucsd.edu

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