What is this? Post Photos of Mystery Items Here (vintage computers only)

[NeXT]

A Z80 for a barcode scanner is pretty nutty. Were they completely unloading the decoding to the card and the card was just shooting a stream of decoded data out a fixed I/O port?

 

[Timo W.]

The DB9 should be serial, as bar code readers back then (and technically still today) pretty much all used serial or keyboard emulation. Would be funny to get that card to do anything again, but I probably rather steal the Z80 and the EPROM from it. There is really not much use for such a card anymore.

 

[nunoalex]

Hi !

I dont really know if this is computer related or some industrial board

It has a :
Z80 CPU
NCR 7250
LH5116-15
Toshiba TMP8155AP
WDC WD1772-PH
Some "ROMs?" saying Portugal 260/460EV
on the back there is a PCF2400 ?

Chips are mostly from 1998
There is a RJ45 and a smaller RJ...?
The big white connector silkscreen says FDC ... so is this some floppy disk controller ?

 

[syzygy]

The WD1772 is a floppy disk controller, and that was one of the features of the board, but probably not the only feature. Unfortunately with a blown cap spewing away as they do, and maybe other damage, it is difficult to say. How much work do you want to put into it or are you just hoping some one will recognize the board?

In the top right, obverse, is that a trace that has peeled up or melted or ?

 

[Chuck(G)]

The NCR chip is a CRT controller. Some sort of SBC, but there's a lot of damage to the ICs.

 

[nunoalex]

The NCR chip is a CRT controller. Some sort of SBC, but there's a lot of damage to the ICs.

Hi my friend !

You are truly the star of this forum
The cap and chips are fine ... there is some kind of brown goo that solidified on top of stuff... some resin... I can scrape it off with a screwdriver
I was just curious to what this might be because it seems to have floppy disks involved and it is from 1988 ...
The tops says "Topsearch" and I think there were computer related stuff associated with that brand in the past.

I found it some time ago on a scrap yard

 

[Chuck(G)]

"Topsearch" appears to be a PCB production house, so no real information there.

Home - Top Search

Welcome to TopSearch Your Trusted Partner in Precision PCB Manufacturing with decades of experience and cutting-edge technology, TopSearch stands as a global leader in Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing. Delivering stable, reliable, and sustainable quality, we are the backbone behind the...

topsearch.com.hk

 

[twolazy]

Maybe a digital answering machine of sorts? Eproms say Portial , and most the answering machine systems I repaired over the year usually say Portal somewhere on them... Just a guess.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Could be something telco-related, though I'd expect to see some isolation circuitry.

 

[tech58761]

Just something that popped out of a box when doing some spring cleaning.
Debating whether it'd be worth toning out the schematic... methinks whoever laid out this board was just a bit too cheap to go double-sided.
There's two SMT parts on the back - one small chip cap by the loop antenna and a 68HC11E9 driving this FM radio board.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Definitely an FM receiver--my first guess would have been for a wireless mic or a remote control.

 

[tech58761]

It seems to me there was something about this being able to pick out either of the two 'SCA' sidebands that would piggyback onto a standard FM radio signal...

 

[DigitalArtifactz]

Can't figure out what these are from

 

[Al Kossow]

The two large boards look like a Sperry graphics terminal ca. 1985
I would guess the ribbon cables should match up between the two.
Design-wise it looks like something that came out of Pertec
Interesting there is almost no firmware on it. Wonder if the 68K code was downloaded

also, there are two extra 50 pin ribbon cables on the board with the DB connectors, so there
may have been a third board.

 

[BOGtheWOMBAT]

Hi !

I dont really know if this is computer related or some industrial board

It has a :
Z80 CPU
NCR 7250
LH5116-15
Toshiba TMP8155AP
WDC WD1772-PH
Some "ROMs?" saying Portugal 260/460EV
on the back there is a PCF2400 ?

Chips are mostly from 1998
There is a RJ45 and a smaller RJ...?
The big white connector silkscreen says FDC ... so is this some floppy disk controller ?

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I am currently working on something similar - Philips VideoWriter word processor. The connectors on the left are for the pronter mech. The edge connector on the right is for an optional RAM/ROM cartridge

 

[mR_Slug]

Intel video board of some type. No feature connector, https://www.ebay.com/itm/296231052783 Anyone know what it is? First though was mpeg decoder but i'm not so sure.

 

[BikeForever]

Anybody help with info about an ADI terminal, got it in bits without case, so identifying it is being tricky.

 

[BikeForever]

Also got a keyboard which should be compatible, but more info would be appreciated

 

[Al Kossow]

I know I've seen this logo before...

 

[wrm]

Hi !

I dont really know if this is computer related or some industrial board

It has a :
Z80 CPU
NCR 7250
LH5116-15
Toshiba TMP8155AP
WDC WD1772-PH
Some "ROMs?" saying Portugal 260/460EV
on the back there is a PCF2400 ?

Chips are mostly from 1998
There is a RJ45 and a smaller RJ...?
The big white connector silkscreen says FDC ... so is this some floppy disk controller ?

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Reminds me a little bit of January's Name That Ware https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2025/name-that-ware-january-2025/