Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

Adrian Stoness tdk.knight at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 20:13:24 CDT 2020


looks simlar to a card used in a ge workmaster for ge faunic plc stuff

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 8:09 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> >>> https://i.imgur.com/WhO4cco.jpg
> >>> https://i.imgur.com/uBCkv5G.png
> >> It resembles, although doesn't match, the AST Six-Pack.
> >> But the AST Six-pack had a clock circuit.
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
> > Isn't the 24-pin DIP part MM58167? shown in the images referenced above a
> > RTC chip?
>
> Which would make it VERY similar, but not direct copy of the ST Six-pack
> (the AST uses a coin cell battery, and many parts are slightly moved
> around.
>
> Q: What are the SIX functions of the AST Six-Pack?
> A: RAM
>         serial
>         parallel
>         joystick
> Q: That's FOUR, not SIX
> A: RAMDISK, Print Spooler.
>
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