Re: What are these cards?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

"Howard Moulton Jr." wrote:

> Hi
>   I recently aquired many a2+'s & a2e's, some with differing hardware
> installed with no documentation
> to go with them. Most of the cards I can identify except two: the first
> card has written on a sticker attached
> to the ROM chip; "Wild Card 2". It also contains a 6116 statice ram, and
> was in slot 5 of the //e I removed
> it from. It sports a small diameter coaxial cable exiting out the rear
> of the a2 with what looks like a
> 3.5 phone jack - I said "looks" - it appears to be a proprietary jack.
> It's silk screen sez "central point
> software" which leads me to believe that this must be some kind of
> storage device card.

It was designed and produced for CPS by East Side Software which
also produced the origional WildCard and the WildCard Plus. The idea
behind the WildCard was to copy memory resident protected software
after it was loaded into RAM. The WildCards I've seen all had a button
on the end of that cable. Everything was on the card so all you had to do
was push the button, insert a blank disk in your drive and hit the return
key twice. Worked on 48k, 64k and 128k software.
Thats about all I can recall. I don't have that card but the origional one
which only worked on 48k software.

    Wayne