Re: Multifunction_cards

[wernst@deltanet.com (Warren 'Llama' Ernst)]

JJeffries@psu.edu (Jason Jeffries) wrote:

>In article <4e8al5$e33@news.asu.edu>
>rpirong@aztec.asu.edu (RICHARD PIRONG) writes:
>
>>  I also remember a (something or other) KACHE card. Was this an
>> early scsi with internal cache? and some additio
>
>Prolly the MultiKache card. It was the grandfather of the RamFAST card.
>
>I recall one card that had... deep breath... serial port,  parallel
>port, clock, speech-synth and ethernet, all on one card. I'm kidding
>about the last one, of course, but that's quite a bit to stick on one
>card. The speech-synth used the TI chipset, a damn good one, even
>today, 15 or so years old. Anyone remember what card this was?

It was a "Business" card, as I recall -- my dad has one (i forget the
company/model name, but the word "Business" was in it). It had MANY,
MANY features, among the more dubious was that the serial ports were
compatible with the IIc, including the 5 pin ports and the handshaking
problem. It had on 1 card: Serial or Parallel mapped to slot 1, Serial
mapped to slot 2, Clock in slot 4, speech synth in slot 5, and
something else interesting I think, but I can't recall it right now.

Virtually,
Warr
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