Unknown Apple 2 cards

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Jun 6 07:45:01 2003

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jules Richardson wrote:

> > It's the only card of the bunch besides the ROM programmer (which I also
> > have) that I recognize.
>
> yep - someone's found the user manual for me (complete with details on how to
> hack the card to work with 27128 chips - ahhh, the good old days of computing!)
>
> luckily everything the card needs is in ROM so I'm not missing any software for
> it. Hope it still works, I could certainly make use of it!

Hey cool. Are these in electronic form? I'd like a copy.

> I have a lot more too, but most of them are more common - disk interfaces, SSC
> cards, Epson printer interfaces etc. There's four different audio cards too I
> think, three of which are homebrewed and one which has four 40-pin ICs on it;
> I'm yet to identify that last one.

I've got hundreds myself.

> Unfortunately no SCSI or network controllers (so far anyway!) - that would have
> been nice :-)

I've got a couple SCSI cards and a few AppleTalk cards. I'm trying to
find a high-speed SCSI interface but those are uncommon.

> That IC tester and the programmer could probably do useful work for me; I just
> need to hook one of the Apple systems up to the PC somehow so it can
> communicate with the outside world. Probably be via serial, but if I had a SCSI
> card in the Apple in theory it could share a SCSI bus with the PC would would
> be interesting :) (I've only ever seen that done between two identical modern
> SGI boxes - not between hardware with a 20 year time difference!)

I don't see why it wouldn't work though.

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