Re: Strange cards on ebay

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
> Here are two auctions with "strange" cards:
>
> a)
>
> This double-decker has the name of a modem but the transformator stumps
> me.
> Its also quite complex for a modem (though the AppleCat is too):
>
> http://cgi.ebay.de/Old-Double-Decker-Apple-II-MicroCOMM-Board-Set_W0QQitemZ9721068691QQcategoryZ80075QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It's just a modem.  Modems are pretty complex if they have onboard
control, which this one clearly does.  You may recall that the
Hayes Micromodem also had a potted "daughter card" attached to the
main card for most of the analog/filter components.

> b)
>
> This one should be an interface - but for what? Cheap networking?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.de/1978-Apple-II-Prototype-Card_W0QQitemZ9721065853QQcategoryZ80075QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> Maybe the resident experts can shed some light? ;-)

Cheap, "Disk ][-like" network sounds like a good guess.  Just in the
last year I've heard about two independent efforts along these lines,
and this looks like a third--by Apple!?

-michael

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