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help me /g/. What are the open pins circled in the image used for?

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help me /g/. What are the open pins circled in the image used for?
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self bump
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>>59583100
for adapting to other video out like HDMI or DVI
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>>59583115
so like a ribbon cable could attach to it that links to another bracket holding a DVI or HDMI port?
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>>59583123
yes
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>>59583100
That's for joysticks and shit, thats an antique cirrus logic PCI card. Nice.

You'd have a second slot with just the external facing port that has a ribbon cable back to it.
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>>59583100
Raspberry Pi compatible GPIO pins.
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>>59583100
most often option connectors for MPEG decoder boards, in an age before CPUs had the horsepower for things like real-time video, >>59583311 describes it pretty well in a way I never actually thought of for some reason, the only MPEG decoders/capture boards/etc in discrete PCI/ISA board I've come across in the wild usually just go through VGA and take over the monitor exclusively when needed
>>59583115
that thing is from 1996 you fucking retard
>>59583237
that was more the domain of sound cards and discrete controllers, some cards did offer game ports but it wasn't the norm
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>>59583427
Newfag plz, that is a Floppy drive connecter
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