SBus to VL Converter

The SBus to VL Converter may have been NVIDIA's first product released for sale, available by August 1995. It allowed the insertion of Sun Microsystems workstation SBus units into VESA Local Bus (a bus common on 486 and early Pentium PC motherboard machines. It was listed in a "Catalyst Catalog" in August 1995. It was likely designed for internal development work on the NV1 (since many early Nvidia employees were ex-Sun Microsystems employees) and may have been sold by phone order or via some other non-retail channel; the product was probably intended for use on Sun Solaris. The fact that it was listed in a catalog implies it was intended to be sold or at least showcased.

Later on (by March 1996), the registered address was changed (from 1206 E. Arques Avenue, the site of Nvidia's first offices, to 1226 Tiros Way, its second offices) and a fax address added for someone called "Chris". This presumably means that it was still being sold at some level by that time.