Aug 22, 2025, 1:53 PMHa, realized I hadn't put up any photos. I've got about 15 minutes a day to work on this so I haven't been doing a great job of documenting, but the inside of the machine looks relatively clean.
- Aug 22, 2025, 1:53 PM
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- Aug 22, 2025, 2:00 PM
Here's one of the HDDs; it's a BJ7D5-A (probably 30MB). It had its own controller card. Haven't gotten the other one out yet.
- Aug 22, 2025, 2:07 PM
And here's the unlabelled card that I'm assuming is video. The chip is completely undocumented but apparently SARC was one of many bullshit brands that sketchy 80s-90s chip manufacturers would spin up for Nothing To See Here reasons. There's a DB9 on the back, so presumably this is an RGBI output.
LMK if you know anything about the RC2002SP!
Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtAug 22, 2025, 2:16 PM@phooky isn't it a custom CGA chip for Compaq CGA?
- Aug 22, 2025, 2:18 PM
@nina_kali_nina The card is definitely not the original graphics card (which is described in minute detail in the technical manual!). It's a later addition; it may be the only QFP in the whole box. (The original graphics adapter is not present.)
