Hit the jackpot - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Nov 1997

Yes it has the side pins and based your other information it is a controller
unit.  I getting orders for the boards now, but will be letting them go by
the end of this week. On the 14th or 15th I will start e-mail to all who
have asked for one.  John 
At 06:11 AM 11/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
...

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:

  Hello to all
 Had a pretty slow week last week only a few finds will later in week.  Today
 I got a box load of SYM-1's somewere betweeen 15 and 20 of them. 
That's exceptionally cool.  When do you start taking orders? :)

  I also got something called a IVS TRUMPCARD 500
by Interactive Video System
 and have no idea what it is, any help out there ? 
Does it have a female 86-pin edge connector on it?

 From the name I suspect it's a hard drive
controller and RAM card for the Amiga 500.  External.  I base my guess on:

1) "TrumpCard" - This was definitely the name of some hardcards for the
                 A2000, and I think there were A500 models as well.

2) "Interactive Video System" - With a name like that, there's a darn good
                                chance the company was in the Amiga
                                market.

3) 500 - As in Amiga 500.

Of course, as usual, I'm separated from my magazines so I can't go poking
around looking.  I think I'll have to move a representative sample into my
room so that this situation is less likely in future.

Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca