Re: Help identify Apple IIe interface card

["James Elkins" <jelkins8@cox.net>]

Actually that makes sense, I do believe there was a printer of some sort 
setting next to the apple on the table. It wasn't an image writer so I 
thought it didn't belong to the apple so I left it.... hmmmmm.

Thanks for your help.

James

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message 
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>
> "James Elkins" (jelkins8@cox.net) writes:
>> I have posted a couple of pictures at
>> http://jelkins.webhop.org/forumpics/view.html click the appleiie folder.
>>
>> I don't believe it is an 80-col card, it was in slot 2 if that helps.
>>
> The "Epson personality" bit suggests a printer interface.
>
> Looking at the picture, there's a 6801 which is a CPU (I can't remember
> at the moment if there's onboard I/O, it has a couple of extra 
> instructions
> over the 6800), and obviously some RAM at the left side.  That 26pin 
> header
> at the top is bound to be for connecting to the printer.
>
> So at the very least it's got to be a parallel port with firmware
> specific to a Epson printer.  Perhaps the memory is used to do a bit
> of spooling.  There's no reason they'd put a CPU on the board unless
> they needed some smarts.
>
> It's most definitely not an 80-column card, there's no 6845 or
> equivalent video IC, and you don't see 26pin headers (as at the top)
> on a video card.
>
>  Michael