Re: Help with mystery card ID?

[spqr@ruth.uucp (Will Baguhn)]

lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (LA County Outdoor Science School) writes:

| I need some help identifying a card.  It came out of a IIe.  The only
| identifying marks I can find are what looks like a logo with the
| letters NPH enclosed in a round-cornered box.  This logo is on the
| card along with "Made in Taiwan".  The logo is also on a silver
| sticker, along with the number 7.  This sticker is on the largest
| chip on the board which is labelled MCM2708C.  There are 4 other
| socketed chips on the board, SN74LS377N, SN74LS00N, and two 74LS74A.
| The only other things on the board are various capacitors and
| resistors, and a 16 pin header.  The cable attached to the 16 pin
| header ends in a Centronics 36 pin plug.  This makes me think it
| might be a parallel printer card, but I'm not sure.  Does anybody
| have experience with a card such as this?
|  
| Thanks in advance,     Greg
| 
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sounds a lot like a parallel card.
MCM2708C sounds like an EPROM, the x74x chips are simple logic things 
(just complex enough to handle some simple address decoding and pass 
the data bus to a latch on the parallel port).

my old parallel card looks a lot like the one you just described.

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