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YA Request for Identification/Assistance



Howdy all!

I'd posted this a few days ago, but my ISP's news server went down, and I didn't find it in the Google news cache. So I apologise if you've seen it before. I'm not trying to be annoying...

     On my latest forage at Goodwill Computerworks, I managed to snag both a RAMWorks III (which works flawlessly), and a curious Disk II-alike card.  The card is silkscreened with a logo "NOC", and the EPROM has "NOC V 2.2" printed in block letters on a sticker over the top.

     The card works (in a IIe).  However, when it boots, the drive "chatters" twice as fast as with my stock Disk II, and when a disk is present it says "DOS 3.3 Found" (or similar, this is from memory).  A friend of mine in Houston told me that it could be a "FastROM disk controller", or even have built-in utilities in ROM.

     My questions are:  Is it?  Does it?  And if so, how does one access it, or what software is required to utilize the card to its fullest?  And if it's not, then what is it? :)

Take Care!
Josef