it is a PC Transporter card! there are a bunch of custom chips on the board. CGA graphics, glue logic, floppy controller...
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it is a PC Transporter card! there are a bunch of custom chips on the board. CGA graphics, glue logic, floppy controller... 9 comments
oddly, the floppy chip is from Apple. the part number is 010-0101-0, which is a special floppy controller chip that supports both GCR (standard Apple II) and MFM. the card has a separate 19-pin floppy port. It isn't jumping out at me, but wasn't the card designed by the Engineering Department (ie. the Saunders) @bitsavers ahh that explains a lot. the card really feels like it was designed by Apple so i figured it was done by ex-Apple engineers. @tubetime @bitsavers Wonder how hard it'll be to make a Macintosh card for the apple ii Think you could hack an ISA slot onto the PC Transporter card? Then you could put a Quapple card in your PC in your Apple II. |
the CPU on the card is an NEC V30. it is a faster clone of the Intel 8086. the ceramic chip you can see on the left is an 8087 floating point coprocessor.