Re: MicroBuffer II card -- what is it?

[jeffmj@cts.com (Jeff Jungblut)]

In Article <7AUG199403210182@vax2.concordia.ca>, spector@vax2.concordia.ca
(Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>        Just finished cleaning up the Apple ][ Plus I received last week,
>but found a slot card inside which I'm not quite sure about. It was 
>manufactured by Practical Peripherals (circa 1981) and is labeled as 
>"MicroBuffer ][". The card has four DRAM chips consisting of 32k (?), nine 
>TTL chips, a large processor-like chip stamped "MicroBuffer", a set of DIP 
>switches and two ROM chips (MB2-A Rev 2.00 (c)1982 / MB2 2.30 Epson (c)1982). 
>I thought it was some sort of printer card, but I noticed it only has a 20-pin
>connector on it. All my printer cards and cables use a 26-pin connector. Anyone
>out there have some information on this old card, or what it does...?

I had one of these in my old IIe.  It's a parallel printer interface with a
32K buffer.  It had a non-standard Centronics cable that attached to the
20-pin connector.

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