On 19-Aug-2001 Iggy Drougge wrote:
> I've come across two full-length eight-bit ISA cards from Gateway
> Communications. The main chips on it is a family of Zilog chips: Z80
> CPU,
> 2?SCC, Z80 CTC. The blanking plate fatures a micro-D50, the same kind
> found on
> SCSI cards. It's not uncommon to find Zilog chips on SCSI controllers,
> but
> that connector was AFAIk introduced with SCSI-2, and an 8-bit SCSI-2
> card
> seems like an odd thing to do.
> The card is labelled WNIM Z80 and is copyrighted 1990. The farther end
> of the
> card features two 10-pin headers marked PORT 1,2 and PORt 3,4
> respectively.
>
> What could this board be for?
Looks like they would be serial boards :
http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/microlib/info/microgram/90_Nov/net_dos_serial_sha
re
-Philip
Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 22:21:33 BST