Mystery corner is a new area of the site containing pictures of unidentified hardware. Can you solve the mystery? If so send me an E-Mail at ian.chapman@bleach.demon.co.uk
Item #1 from Steve Bowman
CLUES
1. The board seems to be some sort of SCSI Card, note the two 50pin connectors
2. There is also a battery on board which could be used for a clock, but seems unlikely. If the card is a SCSI board then the battery could be used to power some NVRAM to hold SCSI settings, similar to that found in the A3000
3. This card is probably a prototype board, possibly of a card that did not make it onto the market or a later design of a card which was never released.
4. There is also 4banks for 30pin SIMMs suggesting it's quite and old card.
6. This card maybe a TRUMPCARD SCSI CONTROLLER, possible a prototype version.
7. This may be a later design of the Grandslam with the main difference being the additional SCSI connector, battery and kickstart socket.
Item #2 from Michael Wilkins
MYSTERY SOLVED. This item was the Utilities Unlimited Kickstart switcher. Full details can be found here.
Item #3 from Christer Beskow
MYSTERY SOLVED. This item was the Videoconverter from Electronic Design. Full details can be found here.
Item #4 from Iggy Drougge
MYSTERY SOLVED: This item was the Kupke Turbo board 030. Full details can be found here.
Item #5 from Iggy Drougge
MYSTERY SOLVED. This item was the (Multi) Evolution 500. Full details can be found here
Item #6 from Iggy Drougge
MYSTERY SOLVED. This item was the Trojan Lightpen. Full details can be found here
Item #7 from Iggy Drougge
MYSTERY SOLVED. This item was the Megamix RAM board from 3-State. Full details can be found here.
Item #8 from Wolf
CLUES
1. External SCSI Controller for the A500
2. Supplied with a Quantum HD (probably 40MB)
3. No options for adding additional memory
4. Only details on the PCB are "SCSI INTERFACE A500"
5. When the system boots, the following info appears.
SCSI INTERFACE Ver 2.01 EP BUFFER
SCSI - HARDDISK wird eingebunden
Geraet:X XXXX
Item #9 from Kepp
MYSTERY SOLVED. This item is the Pyramid 8bit Sound Sampler. Full details can be found here
Item #10 from Luke
1. Zorro II RAM Expansion which takes DIPs.