Coolest? or weirdest?
how about SILLIEST?? IBM professional debug facility. An entire half
length card for the sole purpose of bringing two pins of the ISA bus to a
pushbutton. It made the front cover of PC Tech Journal.
Eiconscript. Laser printer controller (for CX mechanism) with postscript
wannabe and laserjet emulation
Cordata. Laser printer controller with proprietary formatting language
and fonts. Software refuses to run on 286 and above.
Jlaser. Laser printer controller. various models with "add-ons",
including Canon IX12? scanner controller, serial, parallel, floppy
controllers. Originally made for the sole purpose to be able to peddle
large amounts of RAM.
Co-processor "speedup" cards
8086
80186
80286
80386
...
Quadlink. Apple 2 on a card, without the reliability of the Trackstar
(70% DOA rate, and even the replacement boards were untested)
Apple Turnover. fits between floppy controller and drive for reading
Apple disks on PC. POS from POS company.
Coolest?
extender card from Hurricane labs with lots of switches and LEDs to be
able to intercept and monitor some of the bus signals.
P.O.S.T cards. very useful when programming to be able to out to a port
to display what's going on in a program with minimal disruption
Are you going to be at VCF?
I have to offload several more cubic yards of stuff, including ISA cards.
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Fred Cisin cisin_at_xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
PO Box 1236 (510) 558-9366
Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 12:43:19 BST