Re: What is this Apple board?

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

Raymond wrote:

>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have what looks to be an IBM-PC plug-in board, but
>>> it is made by Apple, with a 65C02 processor on it.
>>>
>>> I took a picture of it.  You can view it here:
>>>
>>> http://buoy.com/~scott/whatsit.html
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what this board was for?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Scott
>
>   It IS a Localtalk PC Card.  It uses the same dongle for Localtalk as the
>Mac
>128-Plus and LaserWriter Plus printer.  Apple made the dongle in 3 flavors.
>
>DE9  (for Mac 128-Plus, LW Printer)
>DB25 (for Lisa)
>Mini-Din 8  (For most everything else)

Absolutely right.  Apple designed and manufactured this card for a while,
then turned it over to Farallon.  No doubt, the software distributed with
the card by Farallon is also the Apple driver software.

According to the documentation with the card, it works with an ISA
PC "up to 25 MHz."  Has anyone made it work with faster machines?
(I'd like to try it in a fast Pentium box.)

-michael

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