Re: Info on some Apple // cards?

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

>The second card is a Slotbuster II card.  What do these cards do?
>There is one wire hooked in the internal joystick socket, another in
>the speaker.  It also has a 25 pin connector on the back.  Are
>Slotbusters rare?
>
>http://www.locutus.org/ebayphotos/iiebuster1.jpg
>
>http://www.locutus.org/ebayphotos/iiebuster2.jpg

This is a multi-function card. The special thing about it is that it's
highly configurable - meaning that you could buy (or rather "could have
bought") it with different functions: The usual assortment of parallel
and serial ports, an X-10-interface, a modem port, a clock and a speech
synthesizer(!).

The ports are buffered with (expandable) RAM so you can use it as a
printer buffer, too.

If you tell us the numbers on the chips we may tell you, what functions
are present on this specific card...

Anyway - Google will give you several good search results if you want
to know more about it.


IMHO its the most interesting of the lot. Probably the most useful,
too, as practically everybody already has a RAM expansion and a printer
interface.

The AppleCat is interesting, too, and maybe more valuable - but who
actually has a practical use for it nowadays?

bye
Marcus