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Re: Cards

David Frana wrote:
> 
> Recently I Got An Apple II+ and It had some wierd cards in it
>  They Are As Follows:
> (this is exactly what it says on the card)
> Maybe I Could get some info about them
> 
> card 1- one chip has STD. 7x9 E
>                           (C) 1980 Videx
>         another Chip Has FIRMWARE 2.1
>                          (C) 1980 Videx

  [Previous response covered this, but note he meant 1200 baud, not
12000 baud.. the home computer world didn't have 9600 until the late
80's]

 
> card 2- Has PPC-100
>             TACKLER And one chip Says (C) Copyright 1982
>                                       Tymac Controls Corp.

  I >think< this might be a parallel card, but I could be wrong.

> (This One I Just want to know the Speed & Pin diagrams For it)
> Card 3- Hayes MicroModem II
>               Has A 9 pin connecter on the end facing the
>               Keyboard (Has A Ribbon cable attached To It)

  I have one of these old things. This is basically the original Hayes
modem. It is the Hayes Micromodem II as you've noticed, but
unfortunately this card by itself is useless to you; The Micromodem II
was a two-piece device. The interface card connected via the cable to an
external dark charcoal grey transparent box which had 'Microcoupler'
printed on it. The specs of the modem were 110/300bps, Pulse Dialing, No
speaker.  Yes, you read that right; no touch tone (although I do have an
old program somewhere that buzzes the relay so fast that it sometimes
works as a touch-tone.. can't be good for the modem, though :)

  That was my first modem >sniff<    OLD AND OBSOLETE .. hell, you can
get a box full of 300 baud modems with speakers and touchtone for $5..
I've got two Zoom Modem //e's in my drawer ;)

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Brian J. Bernstein
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