13 May
2007
13 May
'07
3:40 p.m.
michael taylor wrote:
On 5/13/07, Mike Ford <mikeford at socal.rr.com>
wrote:
Its the bane of all scroungers, whats in the bag inside the box may have
nothing to do with anything it says on the box. Classic case is where
someone buys a new special fancy ultra rare etc. item, puts it in their
system, and puts the old card in the bag and box it came in for safe
keeping easy tracking etc.
OTOH a perhaps trivial looking change to the card might be all that was
required to enable the encryption.
I think I have one or two, I believe, Mac IIci or IIcx systems from one
of those big places in New Mexico, that have some kind of encryption
related to I think the hard drives. I remember it looked interesting
enough at the time I decided to keep the whole Mac intact, but haven't
played with it since.
The boxes for the serial cards are both small and already labeled, so
just maybe I can keep track of them instead of burying as I move stuff
around.
I'll try to keep watching this, but I am back to moving stuff and making
space.
Inside each box in a static bag are ISA serial
boards, and I don't know
enough to know what if anything is special about them. UM82C11 in a
socket, sticker over one larger chip is Quadrant Components 88 Jun,
TD3010 PT6120 M <delta sign> 81301, TC inside a large C with 8744S
T24382.
I don't know about this card. I would be interested if it does turn
out to be encryption / cryptography related. I would of expected a
very limited number of companies selling encryption devices in that
era. IBM, NCR, and other "bank friendly" companies.
Second board has Kouwell KW-524H printed on it,
its smaller with a
Winbond W86C452P 248NI425630 as the only big chip.
Possible not. It might of simply been an ISA serial port card
connected to an encryption device, or encrypted line (say a router
and/or modem with X.25 to a bank for example).
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-Michael