[Gllug] [OT-ish] Identifying some old hardware

[Rich Walker]

Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> writes:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've been turning through my cellar and found a few things I need help ID-ing:

[snip]
> B) A graphics card. It says Paradise'88 PVGA1A-JK on the main chip, and in 
> (c)1988 so I figure it's just a bit behind the times, but I'm assuming it'll 
> function just fine on a console only machine. Would I be right in that? It 
> has four DIPswitches showing thru the backplane (for setting default mode?) 
> set at 1011.

Should work if you just boot with console VGA compiled into the kernel -
i.e. any default kernel. Probably will manage 640x480x4bpp...

(I keep putting these in our gateway box)

cheers, Rich


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