Senior crew, can you identify this tool?

[phunguss]

I stopped by the Free Geek Minneapolis today, and over on the free shelf was a strange looking box. Reminded me of the programming panel I built as part of the "How to build your own self programming robot" that I never completed. Guessing the DB0-7 are data bits. ISA board tester or primitive memory tester?

What's your guess? I don't know what it is. Is it worth saving for when Antiques Road Show comes around or send it to Christie's? Or just your everyday, unknown, homemade, handy trash?

 

[Trash80toG4]

That's well before my time, the earliest general purpose bus I could dig up was:

STD Bus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That's not even enough pins for an early 4bit computing bus AFAIK?

4-bit computing - Wikiwand

4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic ...

www.wikiwand.com

Got a pic of the other side of that board?

 

[phunguss]

Got a pic of the other side of that board?

Back of the board is nothing special.