Re: Seeking "MEGATEK" Sun 3/4 era (?) VME Graphics accelerator information and driver

2020-09-14 Thread David Barto via cctalk
> On Sep 13, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > On 9/13/20 2:48 PM, null via cctalk wrote: > >> There is no terminal for it. > > Megatek started out making caligraphic displays for DG systems > those evolved into the Wizzard series. I have one with a Unibus > interface. >

Re: Seeking "MEGATEK" Sun 3/4 era (?) VME Graphics accelerator information and driver

2020-09-13 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/13/20 3:44 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: Like all of the specialized 80's VME boards, it is going to be pretty much impossible to find software for them today. You'll note on bitsavers there is almost no documentation on 3rd party VME boards outside of Motorola. They were so

Re: Seeking "MEGATEK" Sun 3/4 era (?) VME Graphics accelerator information and driver

2020-09-13 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/13/20 2:48 PM, null via cctalk wrote: There is no terminal for it. Megatek started out making caligraphic displays for DG systems those evolved into the Wizzard series. I have one with a Unibus interface. They switched to raster in the late 70s eventually moving to standalone 3D color

Re: Seeking "MEGATEK" Sun 3/4 era (?) VME Graphics accelerator information and driver

2020-09-13 Thread null via cctalk
This is a VME board with 3D acceleration, and RGB out. There is no terminal for it. Sent from NeXTMail > On Sep 13, 2020, at 13:28, Dennis Boone wrote: > >  >> >> Alas I have no idea what they are or if there is hope of using them. > > Megatek built graphics terminals and I think plotters

Re: Seeking "MEGATEK" Sun 3/4 era (?) VME Graphics accelerator information and driver

2020-09-13 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Alas I have no idea what they are or if there is hope of using them. Megatek built graphics terminals and I think plotters that were used in CAD shops. Prime used them with some of their CAD offerings. Megatek also did boards for at least DG, -11, Modcomp systems, maybe others. In fact,

Seeking "MEGATEK" Sun 3/4 era (?) VME Graphics accelerator information and driver

2020-09-13 Thread Ian Finder via cctalk
I picked up a pair (1 set) of these very neat old graphics boards. Alas I have no idea what they are or if there is hope of using them. One is a dual slot 9U VME board that has gobs of video ram all over it, including a board labeled Z buffer. The only output are (3) BNC connectors (R,G, and B)