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Re: A peculiar card question...
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 2) a "PPC-100 Tackler" printer card with seven of its thirteen
> chips missing! Every socketed chip is gone except the EPROM.
> And they're just 14-pin chips--nothing special. (I kind of wonder
> why they were socketed, and the five other chips (besides the
> EPROM) were not.)
> But _here's_ the really amazing part: someone on eBay has a
> small lot of cards for auction that includes this very card. It is
> part of a "group photo" with several other cards. And IT IS MISSING
> ALL THE SAME CHIPS as mine!! What an amazing universe!
Perhaps this was space for buffer RAM?
If I remember rightly, there were some printer cards that could have print
buffer RAM added to them (ah, the old days of having your computer tied up
during a print job). Friend of mine got an external buffer, primarily just
to make me jealous.
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