Mystery video card, any idea?

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The design is similar to the early PAL video cards.

The 74LS164 captures the monochrome pixels from the input video signal, and the 74LS175 captures the 4-bit color pixels. The output from either of those is fed into the chip marked "KA", which produces an output video signal of some kind.

If the chip marked "KA" is a TCA650 then it's a PAL video card, but it's not clear if that's actually the case.

Maybe it's a simple RGB card circa late-1982?

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It's an RGB card. For reference...
des1 wrote: The design is similar to the early PAL video cards. The 74LS164 captures the monochrome pixels from the input video signal, and the 74LS175 captures the 4-bit color pixels. The output from either of those is fed into the chip marked "KA", which produces an output video signal of some kind. If the chip marked "KA" is a TCA650 then it's a PAL video card, but it's not clear if that's actually

 

It's not a PAL video card. The chip marked "KA" is a TTL bipolar PROM.

This is an RGB card. For reference here is my Kaga Taxan RGB card with a similar 6-pin RGB connector:

 

 
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Yes it's a PROM. Thanks, will check if it lives. There is also a Memory card (no use? I've already got 64k) and a Centronics printer interface, and two Apple Sider 10MB drive cards with no cable. The IIe base unit looks OK, just the usual exploded X cap, and one dead key.
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