Re: YA Request for Identification/Assistance

[Mike Guidero <mike@bogus.net>]

This sounds a lot like a card my uncle used to have in his II plus.  If it's 
the same, then it boots both 13- and 16-sector disks, without having to 
flip a switch or change proms.

That's as much as I can tell you.

Mike


Iosaef the Irascable wrote:
> 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