Xabier Ramírez
cvwBiblically accurate mid-late 1990’s family PC.
Damon Thomas@cvwise Mine added a pound or so of dust.
Putzi@cvwise this is voodoo 😉
𒀭 enkidu 🍤@cvwise I LOVED my voodoo gfx cards sooooo much.
Ben Hardill@cvwise from the bottom up
1. built in net + vga
2. sound blaster
3. not sure just yet
4. 3d accelerator pass through card
5. TV/Video capture card
1. built in net + vga
2. sound blaster
3. not sure just yet
4. 3d accelerator pass through card
5. TV/Video capture card
@cvwise remembered what 3 is, Joystick port + VGA
Irkam@cvwise
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LeoBurr@cvwise Close, but at least one of the port retainer screws needs to be missing for it to be 100% Biblically accurate.
R. L. Dane 
Az_The nicest of the damned.@cvwise Interesting array of cards there. Looks like a soundblaster, a vid card, and I am guessing a video throughput card for editing of some sort.
æon 
@cvwise this is what peak computing looks like
mhd@cvwise I'm surprised that the sound card doesn't have a gameport, for even more d-sub glory.
Scali
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｜霜の狼｜人面獣心」🐺❄️@cvwise That is one well-equipped machine!
At first I was like "wow that's a lot of VGA ports! multiple graphics cards?" but then I realized those are probably serial ports or something, hah.
@cvwise TWO Ethernet jacks.
Claire has left the building@frostwolf @cvwise I dunno if any of these are serial though the black D-sub might carry MIDI. It looks like this has a media accelerator card (third from the top) that takes VGA in from one of the graphics cards, composes video decoded from MPEG or other codecs/formats, and outputs to a monitor. Along with a dual-headed graphics card above it and a proprietary audio/video card above the sound card, all on top of the original VGA capability that shipped on the bottom system card riser/panel.
@clairely_inexplicable @cvwise oh it IS all VGA! Cool!
@clairely_inexplicable @frostwolf @cvwise I think it's a Matrox Millennium or somesuch, they had a VGA and big black D-sub, for the Rainbow Runner Studio:
@clairely_inexplicable @frostwolf @cvwise It connects to a breakout cable that gives you all sorts of video in/out options.
@clairely_inexplicable @frostwolf @cvwise It was amazing stuff at the time. Video capturing, playback and editing was far from trivial in those days.
@Scali @clairely_inexplicable @cvwise Honestly, component video capture is hard to find these days... I'm seriously thinking of running the PS3's component out into a component-to-HDMI box and from there into an HDMI capture-card-stick.
@Scali @frostwolf @cvwise in fact I remember bought AcceleratedX Xserver drivers for that matrox millenium card in Linux, which included a license for X/Motif development, which I thought was hilarious at the time considering I came from platforms where the GUI did not require a specific license!
@Scali @frostwolf @cvwise this means our “typical family pc” is capable of displaying to at least 4 VGA monitors lol I think this was probably someone’s semi-pro production machine 😆
@clairely_inexplicable @frostwolf @cvwise Either that, or someone just thought "Hum, what are all these cards lying around here? I'll just put them all into this box"
@clairely_inexplicable @Scali @cvwise I /wanna/ make our current desktop into one of those... Need More PCIe Slots!
(and need 'em to be better spaced because the graphics card blocks 2-and-a-bit, so we can't use our only other PCIe slot)
@clairely_inexplicable @Scali @cvwise Also PCIe capture cards are weirdly hard to find, it's all USB. I am /done/ with cables everywhere.
@frostwolf @clairely_inexplicable @cvwise Blackmagic makes a few, their budget Intensity series is nice.
Their Intensity Pro captures s-video and composite analog as well.
Their Intensity Pro captures s-video and composite analog as well.
@frostwolf @Scali @cvwise if you didn’t care about actually having useful frame rates in games you could always get one of those crypto miner motherboards with like 7 double width spaced PCI-e x1 slots, I bet they are dirt cheap now
@clairely_inexplicable @Scali @cvwise hah! unfortunately this is /also/ our gaming rig so we need at least one, uhh, x8 might work. :3
@frostwolf (I am just kidding, these boards are designed for one thing and not for general computing tasks lol)
Nick 'The Viking'Lots of goodies there and I can testify, I saw it myself.
TeaJay@cvwise looks like USB-C on the top network card 
Spottacus (🚀folsm,paw)
LucasVL@cvwise i can already immagine trying every single port to find which one works
Chaotina@cvwise Rotating texture-mapped 3D text with shiny reflections saying "DO NOT BE AFRAID"
Baloney & Pickle 🥪@cvwise this is giving off real “patch panel from a modular synthesizer that must never be built” energy.
@WhateverSquall not enough 1/4” or 1/8” jacks.
I’d defer to Look Mum No Computer for that (I don’t know if he’s on here).
DrYak@cvwise Out of curiosity, what are the accelerator PCI card in there?
The top one is most likely an MPEG-2/DVD hardware decoder like DXR2 or DXR3 (given the video out options).
The mid one looks like a dedicated 3D card like 3DFx' Voodoo 1 or 2.
The lower one is perhaps some 2D-accelerted VGA add-on, like a Matrox G200, with the weird DA-26 connector being some proprietary dual monitor connector (similar to later DMS-59)?
(and bottom is motherboard's built-ins: VGA and 10 or 100mbits)
@dryak you would be absolutely correct.
Jack Hodgson@cvwise At first I thought, TWO ethernet ports, but then I realized, at least one of them is probably a PHONE port.
Mrs Mouse at work@cvwise but they might need a video card.
Gil Hova@cvwise what family had a 5 monitor setup in the 90’s?
*((char *)NULL) = '\0';@cvwise Wow, it's full of VGA ports!
david@cvwise An ethernet port? Fancier than out family's PC.
Granite T. Rock@cvwise Yours has a lot more ports than I remember them having. Although once I start counting them it makes more sense. From top to bottom: Network, Mouse /keyboard, Video, Printer, sound and finally a modem? Am I close? Something for a joystick mixed in there too I'm guessing.
Amish Super Model@cvwise That’s right out of Commodores 3:31.
Josh Grossman (tghosth👻) 
@cvwise ah yes those were the days :)
Erin the Wolf Kitsune ΔΘ@cvwise my parents didn't have this style machine. BUT it was common to see in middle and high school (yes even in 2005 we were still using computers like this one, and by then it was super old)