Yesterday I saved an old S-Bus (sun) ethernet scsi combi card from the trash. It's quite special because engineers seem to have forgotton a capacitor and a logic circuit on the board, so they did extra wiring and sticking to the produced card. Funny to see. I am wondering how many of these cards were corrected this way until a new revision of the board was developed.And yes, it is "made in U.S.A." which it proudly "says" on its back.
The SCSI controller is a NCR 53CF96-1, the ethernet controller is the AMD chip under the green wirings. The big LSI chip seems to be a microcontroller, doing some bios work for the s-bus card.
Revision seems to be "210-2013-03 REV.50". And yes, these cards were expensive...
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