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Re: Another mystery card (to me at least)



Sean Fahey wrote:

The card is dated 1984 - not much call for battery backed language card by
then, but maybe... I speculate that given SRAM prices of the time, the card
was upgradeable and the dips were for accomodating the larger SRAM.

Tony Diaz thought it might be like the ROM card from a Space 83 (Apple II
clone).

The switches could be for a different size of RAM but it could also be
for configuring the number of active RAM sockets.  A look at the back
of the card would likely settle what the switches do.

The date also seems to suggest a langage card to me. There were lots
of Apple II clones being made and lots of II+ around. If you have one
you could very well need a language card. How likely is it that
someone is going to want to use a battery backed 16k RAMdisk in a
IIe when for less they could pick up a Saturn 128? Even if it can
take larger SRAM, why would anyone be buying 2k SRAM which made
the card marginally usefull.

Wayne