Re: Skyman 2001 card purpose . . .

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

Byron Desnoyers wrote:

> Soon after purchasing my Apple //e last summer, I discovered a few cards
> which did not have a recognisable purpose.  The most interesting of the two
> which remain unidentified is a "skyman 2001".  This card has a bank of
> four dip-switches and another bank of 19 pins.
>
> The second board actually from an old Apple II clone which I cannibalized
> for a number of interesting parts (since the machine just would not work
> with diskette drives, oh well).  The card has an RCA jack which would be
> facing the keyboard when it is placed in the appropiate slot.  It also has a
> yellow cable with an alligator clip on the end, which is marked TP on the
> main-board and was originally connected to the power supply.  Given that
> the board has some 26 chips, it is curious that each chip has its own
> socket.  A couple of the chips even have copper plated leads.  The most
> important chip seems t be a MC6845P.
>
> Anyway, thanks for any help in identifying the purpose of these chips.  Have
> a good evening.

The Skyman 2001 is a printer card. The dipswitches are used to select the
type of printer. I have the manual, if you need more info.

I would suspect the other card is an 80 column card. 6845 chips were used in
all the 80 column cards I've run into except the axilary slot ones.You could
always plug it in and try PR# that slot.

    Wayne