Re: Need help identifying this card...

[quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)]

>> Card has 'Z-RAM' on it on the center.
>
>That is Applied Engineering's memory expansion card for the Apple IIc.
>It is functionally equivalent to a RamWorks card for a IIe.

   The Z-RAm was a memory expansion card AND Z-80 card for the //c, giving it
CP/M capabilities.  Least, that's what I remember about the AE products.

>
>> 16 socketed chips labeled
>>    (V logo sort of like the viacom logo) 9105
>>    V53C100AP10
>
>That will be the RAM (1 MB total).

  Sounds like 2 Megs to me.  8 chips equals 1 Meg in the Apple world, anyways. 

>
>> 1 40-pin socket
>
>The CPU or MMU goes here (I forget which - the MMU seems more likely).

  Yeah, unplug the CPU chip, plug it into the empty socket, and plug the
piggyback onto the empty CPU socket on the motherboard.

>
>> bottom of card has a 40-pin connector on it (looks like it is inserted
>> directly in a chip socket of some kind)
>
>Yep.  It is inserted in place of either the 65C02 CPU or the MMU, which
>then gets moved to the socket on the Z-RAM>
>
>> 18-pin ribbon cable connecting to a small module which looks like it plugs
>> piggyback on top of a PLCC socket

  Must be a part of the Z-80 processor.  I remember seeing Z-80 processors in
PLCC format towards the end of their popularity.

Raymond