Re: Apple 2 SCSI-card ???

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Paul Grammens replied:

>"Ruud Baltissen" <ruudnospambaltissen@abp.nl> wrote in message
>news:aid9hv$iqh8@sunsv007...
>> I was able to make a picture of it:
>> http://home.hccnet.nl/g.baltissen/a2_scsi.jpg
>>
>> --
>
>It LOOKS like a SCSI card, but not one that I'm familiar with. Also, a SCSI
>or even a SASI card (precursor to SCSI) has a ROM chip and some sort of
>large IC to do the processing.  I don't see either of those on there.  So it
>seems unlikely to be a hard disk controller card.

I agree--it's unlikely to be a SCSI card.

I'd bet that it's a parallel card, with at least 16-bits of parallel I/O and
some handshaking/interrupt logic.

The 50-pin socket is just a connector, not a SCSI connector.

-michael

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