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#1 2009-04-02 12:01 pm
- brohymn
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Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
I recently bought an old Apple IIe to relive my childhood. It came with super serial card, i/o card for floppy drive, and 80col/64k expansion card. But it also has a mysterious card in it with no serial number, no manufacturer name, etc. It has a ribbon cable attached that terminates with a 16 pin female connector. Any of you vintage apple experts know what this card could be? Here's a picture of the card:
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#2 2009-04-02 1:28 pm
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Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
Sorta looks like another floppy controller. When the card is installed, would the cable be more likely to connect to something outside the machine, or inside it?
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#3 2009-04-02 10:11 pm
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Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
It's not a floppy controller (at least not a normal one). Apple II floppies connect to the card, not vice-versa.
What makes it a real pain to ID is that, from the looks of it, the IC's had their info sanded off. You might want to try over on http://a2central.com/ . They might be able to ID the card
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#4 2009-04-03 6:09 am
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Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
Jyri Erik wrote:
Apple II floppies connect to the card, not vice-versa.
Look closer at the cable ... it can be removed from the card too.
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#5 2009-04-03 8:53 am
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Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
But that's not the kind of cable you'd use for an external device... right?
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#6 2009-04-03 10:35 pm
- Jyri Erik
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Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
Due to the length of the cable, I'd guess it hooks up to something external. I doubt it's for floppies since standard disc II's used 20 pin connectors while Unidisks and the Apple 3.5 disk used a DB-19 connector.
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#7 2009-04-04 1:10 pm
Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
A hard disk drive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ProFile
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#9 2009-04-05 10:10 am
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Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
I'm going to dig out my old IIe and see if it has one of these. I'll let you know if it does.
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#10 2009-06-02 3:17 pm
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Re: Mystery Apple IIe peripheral card
It seems to be home-made...
With close-up pictures (i.e. allowing to read the markings on the chips) of both sides, it might be possible to determine its fuction.
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