Re: IIgs Cards

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Steven Lichter <DieSpammer@Ikillspammers.com> wrote:

>I'm trying to id some cards that are in a gs that I acquired along with 
>a lot of other things when I got GBBS.  I know one is the Vulcan H/D and 
>another is a Ram card, one appears to be some kind of audio card.  Here 
>is a link for pictures.  If anyone needs id data let me know.  I have 
>several IIgs' and only have use for one, so I would like to find out 
>what these are and then go from there.
>
>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shlichter@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=/8e75scd&.src=ph

    I can identifying most of those items by sight (close up photos would be
better for giving more specifics). From what I can see you have...

Pegasus hardisk

-An internal hardrive setup manufactured by Econ Technologies in the early
90's. It was similar in concept to the Vulcan except it shipped with a SCSI
hardisk and required a RamFAST SCSI controller (the cable it came with
also added an external SCSI port connector to the GS).

Visionary GS

-A real-time video capture card that grabs still image from any composite
NTSC video source in 4-bit color or greyscale (the software supports a
raw data format of up to 12-bit that could be exported). Essentially the 
AST Vision Plus card (which had bugs and stability issues) modified and
re-released by a company called Virtual Realities. 

ZipGS

-IIgs accelerator card utilitizing a faster 65C816 and high speed cache.
This one has either 16K or 64K of cache installed, and very probably
between 7 and 9 MHz based on the fact its not been modified. You
can find out its speed by looking at the megahertz rating on the tin
oscillator at the top left corner and dividing that number by four (e.g.
"32 MHz" oscillator is an 8 MHz accelerator).

CV RAM GS (4 megabyte)

-CV Technologies earlier memory card. It had sockets for 1MBx1 DRAMs 
for up to 4 MB, with a piggyback connector to plug in other companies
memory cards. Technically, with another 4 MB card attached, it could 
hold up to 8 megabytes RAM. It was later replaced by the much more 
compact CV-RAM 8 MB card (which Sequential Systems bought and
renamed the "RAM GS Plus").

RamFAST SCSI

-The fastest and most featureful SCSI controller for the Apple IIGS (as a
matter of fact it was fastest hardisk controller of any type, hands down).