I agree. I have similar cards made by 'mountain
computer' for tape drivers, which use NCR 53C94. One
good point of those cards is that you can talk to the
SCSI chip directly thus they can be used as a
developement card of those chips. I used mine to
control real SCSI drives from within simh.
vax, 3900
--- Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net> wrote:
> I haven't seen one of those in years... i'm pretty
> sure it's a controller
> card for a maynstream external tape drive (least the
> last one I saw was
> hooked up to a maynard tape drive)
>
> At 01:18 AM 9/16/2004, you wrote:
> >I just recently purchased an old Toshiba T5200/100
> Laptop at a thrift
> >store. One of the cards installed in it was an old
> 8-bit device of
> >some sort.
> >
> >First of all, here are pictures of the card in
> question.
> >
>
>http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Geekworks/GW-Mystery-Card-0.JPG
> >
>
>http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Geekworks/GW-Mystery-Card-1.JPG
> >
> >Can anyone here help me identify what this card is,
> and more
> >importantly, where I can download MS-DOS drivers
> for it?
> >
> >It is from Maynard Electronics, 1988. The large
> socketed chip says:
> >
> >WD33C93A-PL
> >00-08 9031
> >069660200102
> >PROTO
> >
> >Other markings state: Type II Controller, and Rev.
> -5
> >
> >The FCC ID number is D8I6I2 60201.
> >
> >Just taking a wild guess, I suspect that this is
> some sort of SCSI
> >Controller. However, I could not find it in the
> TH99 archives. The
> >only match for Maynard on Driverguide is for a
> 16-Bit SCSI driver from
> >Seagate. Also, I could not find any info on
> Seagate's site either.
> >
> >So, anyone here have any info on this card and
> possibly know where to
> >get drivers for it?
>
>
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