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The '''SBus to VL Converter''' may have been | The '''SBus to VL Converter''' may have been NVIDIA's first product released for sale, available by August 1995<ref>https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/16967/CDware_Sep-Dec_1995.bin/.products/.wais/wais-src/Hardware_Peripherals/Interface_Devices_and_Controllers/SBUS-to-VL_Converter.html</ref>. 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<ref>https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/20246/Catalyst%20CDWARE%201996%20May%20to%20August.iso/.products/.wais/wais-src/Hardware_Peripherals/Interface_Devices_and_Controllers/SBUS-to-VL_Converter.html</ref>), 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. | |||
Latest revision as of 01:43, 27 December 2025
The SBus to VL Converter may have been NVIDIA's first product released for sale, available by August 1995[1]. 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[2]), 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.
- ↑ https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/16967/CDware_Sep-Dec_1995.bin/.products/.wais/wais-src/Hardware_Peripherals/Interface_Devices_and_Controllers/SBUS-to-VL_Converter.html
- ↑ https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/20246/Catalyst%20CDWARE%201996%20May%20to%20August.iso/.products/.wais/wais-src/Hardware_Peripherals/Interface_Devices_and_Controllers/SBUS-to-VL_Converter.html