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Video Card History

Posted by Hemos on from the walking-down-memory-lane dept.

John Mathers writes "While searching the net for information on old Voodoo Video Cards, I came across this fabulous Video Card History article up at FastSilicon.com. It's nice to see that someone has taken the time to look back on the Video Cards that revolutionized the personal computer. Here's a quote "When 3dfx released their first card in October of 1996, it hit the computer world like a right cross to the face. That card was called Voodoo. This new card held the door open for video game development. The Voodoo card was simply a 3D graphics accelerator, which was plugged into a regular 2D video card; known as piggy backing."

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  1. Facinating story, but this sites tag line is not.. by Osrin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... "History for Nerds and Stuff that used to matter."