Digicard. What is it?

[webber@werple.apana.org.au (Luke Webber)]

Hi folks.

Forgive a dumb PC programmer with no apple experience for prevailing upon 
your erudition, but (as I tell my wife) this won't hurt, and it won't 
take long.

My daughter's school has two Apple ][e Digicard networks, and they are 
trying to incorporate all of their systems onto one hard-disk server. My 
question relates to that.

The network is hooked together via ribbon cables to external controller 
boxes, one per node. The intelligence for the processor is supplied by 
Digicard network adapters. It seems that these same cards are used in the 
][e for floppy controllers. Is this correct? If so, are these adapters 
freely available, or are other floppy controllers in use on most other 
systems?

TIA
Luke

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