Re: Help identify cards

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961224033205.29442A-100000@piccolo>, Mike Ulman
<mulman@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:

> "Language Card"
> This card was in slot 0 of one of the computers and plugs into the memory
> board. I guess this is the 16K ram upgrade to 64K.

Yes.

> "Saturn Ram Card" from Titan Technologies, Inc.
> I presume this also is a ram card. This as in the other ][+. Its only
> about half full of chips and though also found in slot 0, it has no
> connections to the memory on the mother board (the spot where the card
> above plugs in is occupied by a chip). What is this card? Can it go to
> 128K?

I've heard of this card but I don't know what scheme it uses to add memory.
It's likely that only software written specifically for that board will
be able to use the memory.

> "Epson APL Board"  This is a printer card. It has a cable that fits a
> parallel printer. I can just hook it up to a parallel printer and pr#1
> will print to the printer. Any info on how to get it to print graphics
> like the Grappler C used to do?

I think this depends on the printer and software. I never had a bit of
trouble printing graphics on my Apple DMP hooked up to an APL card.

> "SUP'R'MOD II Ch. 32-34 TV Interface Unit" by M & R Enterprises, Sunnyvale
> This little board with two RCA jacks, one on the board and one off a
> little box on the board, connects to a four prong connector on the
> motherboard behind the monitor connector. Is this an RF modulator? How
> does one hook up a TV to the RCA jack (I can hook up the monitor connector
> on the TV to the monitor connector on the Apple so whats this gadget
> for?).

That's not just "a" RF modulator. It's *the* RF modulator. I haven't
had one around for a long time so I don't remember exactly what they
look like, but at the time it was manufactured, TVs didn't have RCA
jacks for composite input, of course, so there should be some kind of
flat U-shaped pieces that you can screw onto a TV's antenna terminals
(If you have a TV with antenna terminals).

> "Micromodem II" from Hayes
> Its a card with a 10 pin (one blocked out) cable going nowhere. I presume
> this is just a serial card, not a modem. Does it look up to a modem? To an
> accoustic coupler? I bet its 300 baud at most. 

It's a 300 baud modem, but part of it was in a box that was outside of the
computer. That's what they cable is supposed to go to. The missing box
provided the standard phone jack.

-Sheldon

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