So it's got a PCMCIA card that would have a dongle for a modem, and an ethernet portpic.twitter.com/VeDQj2QP45
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I wonder what this port is? I guess based on the positioning, the dell servers it's designed for would have a special connector there, but what does it do? Maybe VGA/keyboard? those aren't easy to run over PCI...pic.twitter.com/u1eeCVgzV6
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Has to be power control, right? The card needs to be able to turn the server on and off after all. Maybe also more standby power. I don't know about that era, but these days the BMC (generic term) also *is* the video card, so that could run over PCI. But no VGA out so maybe not.
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There's a 9-pin IDC connector too, which could be for a serial port bracket for the iDRAC itself, *or* to loop back to the server's own serial port. The latter would make a lot of sense.
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I can't find the manual PDF, but there's a cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_bzhyQVieFoJ:https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/servers/docs/PowerEdge-2600/en/Drac/dra24bk1.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=jp#19 … Looks like it takes standby power from an external power adaptor! And it's optional but if not present, it can only run for a while on battery.
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