Q-bus cards available.

From: Mzthompson_at_aol.com <(Mzthompson_at_aol.com)>
Date: Tue Oct 31 10:53:32 2000

A good while back I hauled home what was the control box of an 8"
floppy duplicator. The information of the box:

Formaster Corporation
1983 Concourse Drive
San Jose, CA 95131

Model 4400

I hauled home only the control box thinking the case might come in
handy for some project. Earlier I opened it up and found a card
cage full of what I assumed at the time was Q-bus cards. Now with
the aid of the Field Guide maintained by Megan, I have identified
the main card as a Q-bus LSI-11/2 CPU 16-bit card.

I have no need for the cards and thought some might be of use to those
on the list. A couple of the cards were made by Formaster, so doubt
much demand for proprietary cards, but are included anyway.

Cards 1-4 are dual height and 5-7 are quad height.

So here is the list:

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1) M7270 KD11-HA LSI-11/2 CPU 16-bit Q-bus

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2) National Semicondutor Memory Systems card

Has 4 rows of 9 4116's, so 64k

Numbers on the card:
55110358-003C 980103858-001 REV L

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3) Sigma Information Systems

This card appears to be a disk controller. It has 4 WDC TR1865PL controller
chips on it and there are 4 ten pin header connectors on the card edge.

Numbers:
Assy 400200
CPX-6-0

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4) Formaster Corporation

I would say this is a proprietary card.
Only meaningful number 003-30026-01

It has a 50 pin header connector and a 16 pin header connector.

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5) Acorn Systems memory card

Has 8 rows of 18 4164's, so 1 mb

Numbers:
Copyright 1981
30019-01

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6) Acorn Interface and ROM card

I am guessing on this one. I say interface because has 4 50 pin
header connectors and 1 34 pin header connector. IIRC, the 34 pin
went to the front panel control board.

It also has 4 EPROMS (24 pin) with ID stickers on them (Formaster)

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7) Formaster card

I would say this is a proprietary card.
Only meaningful number 003-29978-01

It has two 50 pin header connectors.

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If you would like one of these cards, then here is the game plan.

1) Send an email reserving your card(s), first come first served.

2) I will not ask any specific amount for these cards. I will ask
that you send something to cover a little of my time and the trip to
the post office. I'll leave the amount up to you. Hint: Priority
Mail stamps make nice tokens.

3) All cards will be shipped by Priority Mail, one card to a box.
So send a $3.20 stamp for each card you want. Your card will be
properly packed and mailed back to you.

4) Any cards reserved and no stamp received by October 15th will
be 'unreserved' and tossed into the recycle pile.

Mike Thompson
8470 S US Hwy 41
Terre Haute, IN 47802-5198
Received on Tue Oct 31 2000 - 10:53:32 GMT