Re: Help with mystery card ID?

[tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu (Tony Diaz)]

LA County Outdoor Science School (lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu) wrote:
> I need some help identifying a card.  It came out of a IIe.  The only
> identifying marks I can find are what looks like a logo with the
> letters NPH enclosed in a round-cornered box.  This logo is on the
> card along with "Made in Taiwan".  The logo is also on a silver
> sticker, along with the number 7.  This sticker is on the largest
> chip on the board which is labelled MCM2708C.  There are 4 other
> socketed chips on the board, SN74LS377N, SN74LS00N, and two 74LS74A.
> The only other things on the board are various capacitors and
> resistors, and a 16 pin header.  The cable attached to the 16 pin
> header ends in a Centronics 36 pin plug.  This makes me think it
> might be a parallel printer card, but I'm not sure.  Does anybody
> have experience with a card such as this?

Sounds like a simple text only parallel interface to me...

May even do graphics if it's an Epson APL card clone...

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