Re: Identify Cards!

[W Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Tony Cianfaglione wrote:

>
>    One is labelled BETA and looks like a disk drive card with 2 - 20 pin
> on it.  No other names or numbers.

Don't know. The only other card I can think of off hand with 2 - 20 pin
connectors is a printer buffer card.

>
>    Another has an RCA phono jack on it along with a wire that has an
> alligator clip on the end.  It has numerous chips, 3 of which have the
> little see-through windows in them (eproms?) and the largest chip is
> labelled HD46505SP-1.  There is a small 'can' on one side labelled 17.430
> CTZ or GTZ (hard to see).

That's definitely an 80 column card, generally only used in a II or II+

>    The third card is labelled Z80 CARD SOFT but is different than my
> Microsoft Z80 card.  The large chip is labelled LH0080 Z80-CPU.

There's quite a few varieties of Z80 card kicking around. I'm not
sure how many varieties I have kicking around.

>    These and a few others came out of a rather strange looking IIe

Sound like a clone. Some were better designs than Apples, some weren't.
It'd be interesting to know how many models of clones were made. Hundreds?

     Wayne