Help finding info on a specific Supermac Thunder nubus card

[chelseayr]

I'm not sure if I somehow have a very rare card but would any of you video card collectors around know the full model name for this particular card given that even just 'Thunder nubus' has not turned up any aid?

And also I'm a little indecisive on trying to pull the daughter card off after it had been stuck on there for a very long time but exactly what was it? I so far can only guess that it probably was one of these many AT&T DSPs populated application-accelerator?

 

[velocityg4]

It appears to be the Supermac Thunder/24. The daughtercard may be the Twin AT&T 3210 DSPs for Photoshop and QuickDraw acceleration. Which apparently makes it a SuperMac Thunder II GX 1152. Definitely a high end NuBUS card. Leave that daughtercard alone. It only increases the desirability of the piece.

SuperMac Thunder/24

www.lowendmac.com

 

[chelseayr]

velocityg4, sorry I probably should had been a little more specific about that. I meant could find many thunder card photos but only one seemingly had two sockets on it, only for me to find out that the link was a 404 and even archive.org had no record of it so I wonder about these four sockets on mine as I'm sure they still were placed there for a good reason back then.

 

[velocityg4]

Can't say for sure. This page has the Thunder 24 manual. It may tell you but it is archived in .sit.hqx and I have no way of unpacking it right now.

Vintage Apple - Gamba - Video: Nubus card-Monitor Matrix

vintageapple.org

You may also find an article in the Macworld archives at vintageapple.org from 91 or 92.

 

[chelseayr]

Sorry about writing often in a short time? But either way thanks for the suggestion on archives, after searching for a while I found that it was apparently called 'GWorld memory' (page 133 of Macworld September 1991 if anyone else was wondering)

And not surprising when I looked for Gworld on the web it also turned up this older forum thread as well. So I guess it seem its easier to just treat it as a normal Thunder card for most part.