23 Apr
2003
23 Apr
'03
8:38 a.m.
--- "Jason J. Gullickson" <mr(a)jasongullickson.com> wrote:
You know I remember using one of these when I was in
school. We had an
SE/30 server that ran a lab of mac...mac II something's and then there
were these two IIe's in the corner with greenscreens that were somehow
attached to the network...so it a localtalk interface?
Yep. The "Apple Workstation Interface" is an intellegent card that
fits in late-model Apple IIs (well... it *fits* in all of them, but
it only _works_ with a IIgs or expanded IIe). It has two 8-pin DINs
on the end of ribbon cables, one marked with an Apple Localtalk icon,
one with a printer icon.
The board itself has a 65SC02, two 6264 SRAMs, a Zilog Z8530 (common
to Macs, Suns and late-model COMBOARDS ;-), some glue logic, a
honkin' big Apple ASIC, and some AM26LS30/AM26LS32 level drivers.
There's a picture at:
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/apple2tree/card/card2.htm
It's the one at the bottom of the page.
WARNING: Japanese characters are present. Your browser might or might
not like them. Under the picture, it starts off with "uuaakusuteeshiyon
kaado" ("Workstation Card" in Katakana).
-ethan
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