Re: Rarest Card

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

brad wrote:
> well...a long thread.did not read thru all of them but here goes..what comes 
> to mind to me is the unreleased apple ethernet card prototype i saw on on 
> ebay....it worked on an apple iie i think...apple pi in the dc area used to 
> run a bunch (hush hush)

..but not _production_ cards.

> i myself have a bubble memory card (anyone have an install disk?)

They don't require an install disk.  They look just like a Disk ][.
Just put it in a slot and PR#s.  There is a special FID that deals
with the fact that it's only 128KB, but it's fully operational on its
own.

> i also have a vista 1200 carasell (sp?) drive held like 6 hd floppies much 
> like the scsi pioneer did cd's but floppies kinda funky..the card for it 
> would be hard to find

I have one of those, too, along with a couple of the modified 8"
floppies that it used (jacket punch).  I think it is controlled by
a standard Vista card, with some special commands sent by software.

> last one to come to mind is the hacking card that woz and capt crunch used 
> (i think there were 5 of them in an apple ii) that supposedly if they were 
> to turn on that apple ii on it would have dumped half the us phone system 
> (see some autobiograhys)...

Well, there wasn't anything special about the cards--any special
abilities they had were a result of the person programming them.  ;-)

-michael

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