Re: IIeasy Print card...

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mjmahon@aol.com (MJMahon) wrote:
>I just picked up a full-size (loooong) Apple II peripheral card.
>It was manufactured in late 1988, and it is marked "IIeasy Print,
>ROM revision D".
>
>It uses only power from the Apple, and connects to an external
>box which has six mini-DIN 8-pin sockets.  It appears to be a
>serial port multiplexor to fan in up to five computers to one printer
>(or what?).  The card has a 65SC102 processor and six(!) 65C51A's.
>
>Anyone know about this card?  Any info on its use?  Although I'd
>expect it to be configured mostly by serial port messages, it has
>a 12-pin header with jumpers, so any info would be very helpful.
>
>TIA,
>
>-michael

Michael, two companies that I know of made these types of cards.
One was Pacemark and the other is Sequential Systems.  These are
printer sharing and buffering cards.  You are correct in that the
cards let several Apple II computers plug into one card in one
Apple II computer with then connect to one printer, letting all
the connected computers use that printer.  The cards have memory,
I believe, so that they can spool print requests.

Sequential is still selling their versions, if I'm not mistaken.
See http://www.sequential.com/ for more information.

-Scott G.