Re: Help ID this card ..

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<JCA31@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> wrote:
>maybe someone would recognize what this card is- i'm at a loss..
>
>It's apparently made by some company called 'V-Tech'. It has two
>short (6") ribbon cables that both end in female db-19's. Other
>identifying numbers on the card are "35-2424-00" and "702283A".
>There's what looks like a 28 pin eprom hiding under a label that
>has a upc code and the numbers "A905 23757" on it. There's also a
>24 pin device that looks suspiciously like a static ram, marked
>LH5116-15 (150ns 2K? <shrig>) .. and right in the middle there's
>a surface mount beastie that looks to have about 100 or more pins.
>This last is marked VTCL 27-0692-1-0 61H20B73F 8915.
>
>This was in a IIe that also had a modem, disk and printer cards
>present, and was plugged into slot 4.
>
>any ideas?
>thanks in advance
>-j

You have a Universal Disk Controller.  Those two ribbon cables
connect disk drives.  One of the ribbons only carries one
drive.  The other ribbon can carry a drive chain (one drive
plugged into the back of another) of four drives.  The UDC card
supports 3.5" and 5.25" UniDisks, 400K Macintosh floppy drives,
800K Macintosh floppy drives, the Apple 3.5" drive (GS/Mac
compatible and daisy chainable), Laser 3.5" and 5.25" drives,
Smartport hard drives, and the Macintosh HD20 floppy port hard
disk.  The SuperDrive will function, but only at 800K.

Note: The programmer of the UDC firmware has posted that the
very last revision of the UDC firmware had the UniDisk 3.5
support taken out.  If you have a later card, you have to use
Apple 3.5 drives or SuperDrives for 3.5" access.

-Scott G.