NCR BAM-BAM
NCR P/N P515-0000803
NCR P/N P515-0000803
This card is living, breathing proof that if you had the money, you could alter the Blessed Micro Channel's form, while following the mechanisms. If you want to use the BAM-BAM in an NCR system, it seems that "Bob's your uncle". But using it in an IBM PS/2 is "right out"... like counting to five...
Imagine that you've ceaselessly stalked _ANY_ MCA accelerator card on Flea-Buy... and then you see a BAM-BAM... Incredibly huge tracts of... RAM. Pulse racing, breath coming in gasps, you whip out your plastic to make it yours alone. And then it arrives... akin to the return of the prodigal son...
Huh, that's strange, it doesn't fit in an AVE slot... Let's try a 16-bit slot, boy I'm sooo smart! Slam it in, power on... and darkness... All you hear or see is darkness. Laughter... laughter... laughing at my cries...
UPDATE: After consulting with MAJ Tom, further rubber chicken shaking has NOT identified ANY video BIOS. There is no EPROM, or EEPROM on this adapter. The AVE extension will NOT fit in any sane IBM MCA-standard following AVE extension. The 16-bit section does not have B58/A58, GND/-INT15, while not a cataclysmic thing, it suggests that NCR chose to construct an adapter it's own way. Plus we have ZEE-RO documentation.
MAJ Tom has a suspicion that some signal and power contacts are not in the Holy IBM ordained order. Trying the BAM-BAM in a basic 16-bit slot might result in damage to the card. As well as the system?
Super High Intensity Tinkering follows!
IF there was a weg to correctly order the signals from a BAM-BAM to an IBM slot, my SWAG is to use a dual monitor setup while initializing the BAM-BAM. You don't have an Auxiliary Video Extension to provide Base Video during configuration.
Once the card is initialized [assume NCR used something like the ATI GUPs "INIT" program], you might get it to run alone like the ATI GUP in a Model 95.
WARNING! If you have serious EE chops and live for board-level rework, then by all means, go for it! As for myself, I'll just pass on this card. LFO
BAM-BAM P515-0000803 component side
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BAM-BAM Rear
