Re: Help ID odd card..

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <25FEB199409011766@pavo.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca> wrote:
>In article <2kk3kq$h8d@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, valthoff@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Victoria M Althoff) writes...
>>In article <2kj05a$3kk@carroll1.cc.edu>,
>>Ron Kneusel <rkneusel@carroll1.cc.edu> wrote:
>>> We recently acquired and old Apple IIe and the card sitting in
>>> slot seven presently defies identification.
>>>
>>> It is a long card made by Apple Computer. It has a cable running
>>> to a female RS-232 25-pin connector.  There are no markings on
>>> the card (other than that it was assembled in Singapore) that
>>> indicate it's purpose.  There are many small chips, a larger chip
>>> with "Apple Copr 1989" on it, and two square chips in sockets
>>> with many pins each.

>>> the machine there is a _long_ pause between turning it on and
>>> when the old Disk ][ drives kick in.  There is no pause with it
>>> out of the machine.

>	Actually, the card described in the post above yours (especially the
>mention of two-square socketed chips) sounds more like the Apple II High-Speed 
>SCSI card. It requires an enhanced Apple //e and is capable of data transfers
>of 511k per/second (1mb/sec if connected to an Apple IIgs) when attached to
>any hardrive, CD-ROM, etc. 

It is definitely a HS SCSI. The 1989 date is the biggest tipoff. The only thing
newer than that from Apple is the superdrive card. A final clue is that the
square socketed chips are labeled SANDWICH II. This card hangs your machine for
around 30 seconds when no device is attached. Rev C does not by the way.
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