Re: Help identifying hardware

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Kelly Petriew writes ...
> 
> I was at a thrift shop recently and found an Apple IIe clone called an
> "Orchard II".  It had a couple of cards in it that I've never seen
> before.
> One looked like some kind of video card, it had a ROM chip on it with
> a single 'RCA' cable that went to the video out on the motherboard, it
> had a second 'RCA' cable attached to the back (nearest keyboard) of
> the card that I assume went to the monitor.  There were no brand names
> on the thing, and I didn't get a chance to write down any numbers.  It
> also had a 4-dip switch.
>

     A guess is that the chip that looks like a ROM is some kind of TV/video
IC and that the board converts Apple II composite video to either some other
standard-- like NTSC to PAL-- or to RF for connecting to a TV via a "TV/Game
switch". The DIP switch might set Channel 3 or 4 output and allow setting
output to monochrome.
 
 
> The other didn't have many chips on it (2-3) but it did have a 6522
> chip on it with a (15 pin?) adapter for a ribbon cable.
 ....

     There are many possibilities. You might be able to identify the card by
checking pics at ...

ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/Apple.CLASSIC.GRAPHICS/
and
ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/FAQs.and.INFO/ .



Rubywand