So it turns out it's a USB adapter.
That's... pretty boring. There were a lot of PCI USB adapters, because right when USB was first taking off, computers either didn't have USB or only had one or two USB ports.
But wait, why is it using USB-B?
That's... pretty boring. There were a lot of PCI USB adapters, because right when USB was first taking off, computers either didn't have USB or only had one or two USB ports.
But wait, why is it using USB-B?
Looking at the board, it's pretty simple. It's a single big chip, a small chip, and some support circuitry.