Re: Gurus! Help me ID some A2 cards, please?

[Erick Wagner <wagnere@concentric.net>]

Pat McNeil wrote:

> 2) A passport designs Soundchaser card.  Not attached to anything, but
> has an empty 16 pin DIP socket.  What's it do & What software is
> needed, if any.

This was an early MIDI card for the Apple II series. Besides the
software
that came with the card, there were probably a handful of commercial
packages
that also supported this card. You just need to find some really old
sequencer software for the Apple II and you should be okay.

If there are no other cables or connectors on this board, the 16-pin DIP
must have been the way they attached the MIDI cables to the board. There
must have been an adapter that went from a 16-pin header to one or more
DIN-5 connectors (the standard MIDI connector); it probably had MIDI-in
and MIDI-out connections (not sure if it had MIDI-thru). If you can't
locate
the documentation for this card, it should make a nice door stop; the
doc
probably describes the pin-out of the 16-pin DIP connector.