Hit the jackpot

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Sat Nov 8 21:21:49 1997

Yes it has the side pins and based your other information it is a controller
unit. I getting orders for the boards now, but will be letting them go by
the end of this week. On the 14th or 15th I will start e-mail to all who
have asked for one. John
At 06:11 AM 11/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
>
>> Hello to all
>> Had a pretty slow week last week only a few finds will later in week. Today
>> I got a box load of SYM-1's somewere betweeen 15 and 20 of them.
>
>That's exceptionally cool. When do you start taking orders? :)
>
>> I also got something called a IVS TRUMPCARD 500 by Interactive Video System
>> and have no idea what it is, any help out there ?
>
>Does it have a female 86-pin edge connector on it?
>
>>From the name I suspect it's a hard drive controller and RAM card for the
>Amiga 500. External. I base my guess on:
>
>1) "TrumpCard" - This was definitely the name of some hardcards for the
> A2000, and I think there were A500 models as well.
>
>2) "Interactive Video System" - With a name like that, there's a darn good
> chance the company was in the Amiga
> market.
>
>3) 500 - As in Amiga 500.
>
>Of course, as usual, I'm separated from my magazines so I can't go poking
>around looking. I think I'll have to move a representative sample into my
>room so that this situation is less likely in future.
>
>
>Doug Spence
>ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
>
>
>
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