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| From | Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.apollo |
| Subject | Re: My Apollos |
| Date | 2012-03-10 22:43 -0800 |
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On Saturday, March 10, 2012 9:26:33 AM UTC-8, Jim Rees wrote: > I don't think the WD "mystery card" is a scsi controller. The chip > seems to be an ASIC that was used on some ethernet cards (WD was in > the ethernet business too in the 1980s). But the parts count is too > low for a 1987 scsi controller. It does appear to have a 50-pin > Centronics connector. I'm going to guess it's a generic parallel port > controller, maybe for controlling lab equipment. It's not for a > printer, that would have a 36-pin connector. Well I did a Google search on "wdscs-atxt fasst x7" (from the label) and apparently its an 8-bit scsi controller... Not sure why its in an Apollo though. Maybe someone stuck it in there thinking its a PC and it might work? Or maybe there is a way of driving it? These machines all came out of surplus shops, so I have no clue how they were being monkey'ed with...
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My Apollos Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-09 19:56 -0800
Re: My Apollos Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-10 09:26 -0800
Re: My Apollos Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 22:43 -0800
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