24 Jul
2002
24 Jul
'02
9:29 p.m.
Has anyone ever heard of a PaceMark Technologies IIEasy Print card for the
Apple ][? You'd think it was some sort of printer interface with the
name. However, the edge connector simply has power leads, no data or
address. So this card cannot communicate with the Apple ][. I imagine it
must have been a daughterboard for some other card?
It has a copyright date of 1989 silk-screened on the board. It also has a
DB-25 connector tail on the rear.
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24 Jul
24 Jul
10:17 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Has anyone ever heard of a PaceMark Technologies
IIEasy Print card for
the Apple ][? You'd think it was some sort of printer interface with
the name. However, the edge connector simply has power leads, no data
or address. So this card cannot communicate with the Apple ][. I
imagine it must have been a daughterboard for some other card?
It has a copyright date of 1989 silk-screened on the board. It also has
a DB-25 connector tail on the rear.
What kind of chips does it use? Maybe its a printer buffer of some sort?
-Toth
25 Jul
25 Jul
12:14 a.m.
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
Good guess. That was the thought of a colleague. It has a few Toshiba
chips on it. Sorry, I don't have it with me currently but they seemed to
have been some sort of memory chips.
By chance I found I have a //e with the same card in it but there is no
daughter board connected to it so the mystery remains.
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Has anyone
ever heard of a PaceMark Technologies IIEasy Print card for
the Apple ][? You'd think it was some sort of printer interface with
the name. However, the edge connector simply has power leads, no data
or address. So this card cannot communicate with the Apple ][. I
imagine it must have been a daughterboard for some other card?
It has a copyright date of 1989 silk-screened on the board. It also has
a DB-25 connector tail on the rear.
What kind of chips does it use? Maybe its a printer buffer of some sort? 
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8:47 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
Any other connectors on the board (possibly a 26 pin
header for a
parallel input from another card)? What are the main chips on the board?
Just a 14-pin header near the 25-pin header.
Chips are:
(2) Toshiba TC51832PL-12
Hyundai HY6116AP-15
a 64K ROM
(6) Harris CDP65C51AE2
and a GTE 65SC102 (which is, what, a faster than 1Mhz 65C02?)
My first guesses are that it's either a printer
buffer (takes in data
fast from a conventional Apple ][ printer card, sends it to the printer
as and when the latter can accept it) or that it's some kind of data
translater to make a strange printer emulate an Epson or similar.
Would make sense but the 14-pin header doesn't lend credence to that
theory.
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4:06 a.m.
This may give you a lead as to what it is.....
Pace was also co-founder and President of PaceMark Technologies, a firm
that designed and manufactured computer networking hardware and peripherals
for the education marketplace.
http://ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/apple2/Collections/AOL/Educational/Transcript…
At 08:40 PM 7/25/02 +0100, you wrote:
Has anyone ever heard of a PaceMark Technologies IIEasy Print card for the
Apple ][? You'd think it was some sort of printer interface with the
name. However, the edge connector simply has power leads, no data or
address. So this card cannot communicate with the Apple ][. I imagine it
must have been a daughterboard for some other card?
It has a copyright date of 1989 silk-screened on the board. It also has a
DB-25 connector tail on the rear.
Any other connectors on the board (possibly a 26 pin header for a
parallel input from another card)? What are the main chips on the board?
My first guesses are that it's either a printer buffer (takes in data
fast from a conventional Apple ][ printer card, sends it to the printer
as and when the latter can accept it) or that it's some kind of data
translater to make a strange printer emulate an Epson or similar.
-tony 
25 Jul
25 Jul
8:33 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
Has anyone ever heard of a PaceMark Technologies
IIEasy Print card for the
Apple ][? You'd think it was some sort of printer interface with the
name. However, the edge connector simply has power leads, no data or
address. So this card cannot communicate with the Apple ][. I imagine it
must have been a daughterboard for some other card?
It has a copyright date of 1989 silk-screened on the board. It also has a
DB-25 connector tail on the rear.
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The II Easy Print system was a 256K or 512K (expandable to 2 Meg)
self-switching buffered box that connected SuperSerial cards from up to
5 IIe's to the same ImageWriter II printer, though I recall hearing you
could get up to 7 working connections with a little effort.
On the IIgs and the Mac, it used ports (PCs were also supported).
Made by PaceMark and available through various Apple hardware dealers of
the day. Cost about $600 IIRC, for 5 connections and 512K.
The card you have is a buffer for the box.
Mike
/mpm
26 Jul
26 Jul
1:44 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, /mpm wrote:
The II Easy Print system was a 256K or 512K
(expandable to 2 Meg)
self-switching buffered box that connected SuperSerial cards from up to
5 IIe's to the same ImageWriter II printer, though I recall hearing you
could get up to 7 working connections with a little effort.
On the IIgs and the Mac, it used ports (PCs were also supported).
Made by PaceMark and available through various Apple hardware dealers of
the day. Cost about $600 IIRC, for 5 connections and 512K.
The card you have is a buffer for the box.
Thanks for the info. Tony was mostly right after all ;)
Have any idea what the box looks like so I can keep an eye out for it?
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9:42 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, /mpm wrote:
I don't recall ever seeing one - just reading the press releases in the
Apple II rags that were still around at the time ('88 or '89, IIRC). It
was billed mostly as printer sharing solution for those who couldn't
afford a network.
I believe PaceMark was bought by Okidata in the early 90's, so they
might be able to provide some insight.
Mike
/mpm
The II Easy Print system was a 256K or 512K
(expandable to 2 Meg)
self-switching buffered box that connected SuperSerial cards from up to
5 IIe's to the same ImageWriter II printer, though I recall hearing you
could get up to 7 working connections with a little effort.
On the IIgs and the Mac, it used ports (PCs were also supported).
Made by PaceMark and available through various Apple hardware dealers of
the day. Cost about $600 IIRC, for 5 connections and 512K.
The card you have is a buffer for the box.
Thanks for the info. Tony was mostly right after all ;)
Have any idea what the box looks like so I can keep an eye out for it?
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