Re: What is a SchoolBus card?

[Roger Johnstone <news2006@roger.geek.nz>]

In <43c10fdb$0$20771$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> Linards 
Ticmanis  wrote:
> Alex Freed wrote:
> 
>> Very likely so: the 8530 "SCC" chip is the same one as used for 
>> Appletalk. So this MIGHT inter-network with Mac computers.
> 
> ....but of course dating from 1983 it seems certain that it wasn't 
> designed with Macs in mind.

By 1983 the Mac hardware design would have been finished, and it's 
perfectly possible that whoever designed the SchoolBus card had been 
involved with the Mac too, or maybe the SchoolBus card came first and 
then the designer went on to do the Mac serial ports. With no processor 
on the card though a 1MHz Apple II is too slow to handle LocalTalk 
networking. I wonder if this was an earlier version that ran at a slower 
speed?

What's amazing for me is seeing cards like this. I've been using Apple 
computers for over 20 years and had never heard of SchoolBus before, and 
assumed it was a third-party card until I saw the pictures.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://roger.geek.nz/
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