Re: Help ID odd card..

[sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

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.
>>
>> Could this be a hard disk interface? SCSI perhaps?  With it in
>> 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.
> 
>Tell me, is the hole for one pin (I believe #14) blocked off in the long row on
>the connector?  You might have an Apple ProFile interface.  The ProFile was the
>Apple /// hard-drive, and I now have one connected to my Lisa.  It's a 
>sub-standard communications format (naturally) using a two-way parallel port.  
>Definately NOT SCSI.  But if you can stand the noise and can get hold of a 
>ProFile, it's an okay-little 5-meg hard drive!
>(ProFiles are noisy)

	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. 

	The Apple ProFile interface looks quite difference. It mostly has
ordinary-style IC chips (ie - 74Lxxxxx type) and one 24-pin ROM chip; all
are socketed btw. It does have a 25-pin D-style female connector hanging off
it, but your right, it's definately not a SCSI (or even SASI) controller.
My ProFile controller is marked "Apple II Interface 820-5006-B", though too
bad I never recieved any ProFile HD to try hooking it up to. Which brings
up another point -- Can this controller be used for connecting something
_other_ than a ProFile 5mb/10mb hardrive? If not, it's rather unless to me, 
unless I happen to stumble across an ancient ProFile some years from now! :) 

>--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Mitchell Spector
sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca