Re: Please help identify these cards...

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davezinkin@aol.com (DaveZinkin) wrote:

>Could someone please help me identify these cards? They were in a pile of
Apple
>II-series cards I'm sorting, but while I can figure out most of what's in the
>pile (wow, my first Apple Serial, not Super Serial, Card!), these two have me
>stumped.
>
>Card #1:  Apple Computer part #820-0153-A, copyright 1990, the words "Sandwich
>II" and a cable with a female DB-25 connector hanging off

That's an Apple High Speed SCSI card, a DMA SCSI controller.

I have one with a 1GB IBM hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, and
an Iomega Zip drive all on connected to this card.  It is the best
SCSI interface for the Apple II.

>Card #2: VTech logo, two 20-pin male connectors marked "DRV 2" and "DRV 1,"
two
>"Q.C. PASSED" stickers, lots of chips but few other clues

This is Video Technology's (Laser) Universal Disk Controller.
DRV 2 only supports one drive.  DRV 1 is a daisy chain port
and when this card is installed in slot 5, DRV 1 behaves much
like an Apple IIGS drive port (but it works in the IIe too).

You can use practically any drive.

SuperDrive (only at 800k)
Apple 3.5 drive (the IIGS daisy chain type)
Macintosh 3.5 400k AND 800k types (without eject buttons)
UniDisk 3.5
UniDisk 5.25
Disk II (with adapter)
Laser 128 5.25" drive
Laser 128 3.5" drive
Laser 128 3.5" daisy chain drive
Various hard drives that run off Apple II and Macintosh
disk drive ports

>And another question while I'm at it...does the RAMWorks III card go in a IIe
>or a IIGS?  I've got one of those cards too.

RAMWorks III goes only in the IIe aux slot.