Apple High Speed, RAMFast SCSI, Profile controller cards

[Sean Fahey]

I'm considering putting a few Apple II cards on eBay, but thought I'd offer them here first.

Apple High Speed SCSI - $125ea (2 avail)
RAMFast Rev D 1MB 3.01F - $200 (1 avail)
Apple II Profile Controller - $100 (1 avail)

Prefer cash via PayPal, but I'm open to trades for certain Applied Engineering products.

[Hugh Hood]

Sean:

Which AE products do you have in mind?



Hugh Hood





in article 577df73e-90a4-491c...@googlegroups.com, Sean Fahey
at a2...@hotmail.com wrote on 9/26/12 12:00 PM:

[Sean Fahey]

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:12:03 PM UTC-5, Hugh Hood wrote:

> Which AE products do you have in mind?

Minty, working

Phasor
BufferPro with 1.3/1.2 firmware
16 bit option card
Music Synthesizer
I/O32
IIc System Clock
Z-80C

I'm also going to list a Video Overlay Card (or two), Focus controllers, some cracking cards (Crackshot, Wildcards etc) and a few CVT 4MB IIGS RAM cards. I've got tons of stuff, and need to scale back and specialize a bit more.

[Hugh Hood]

Sean,

I'm afraid I'd just be a piker at your high roller table. Heck, I haven't
even _seen_ most of those items.

Good luck in the quest.

(not that it needs any buildup from the likes of me) -- Guys, that 1 meg
RamFAST D that Sean's selling here for $200 is worth its weight in gold for
ProDOS 8 use. The twin combo of DMA and a fast cache will leave your head
spinning on file reads and writes. I'll concede that it may have a peer or
two when used under GS/OS, though.





Hugh Hood



in article 858b1967-db99-4bdc...@googlegroups.com, Sean Fahey
at a2...@hotmail.com wrote on 9/27/12 8:23 AM:

[Sean Fahey]

Someone with a macgui.com e-mail address wrote me to ask if the SCSI cards were still available. They are.

However - I am unable to reply directly to you because Hotmail and my Exchange server both report your mailbox doesn't exist.

[Sean Fahey]

I'm going to sell a working SecondSight card with VGA cable. I know I have the box, pretty sure the manual and disk are there too. I'm willing to ship to Europe, Japan, etc. with a flat rate USPS box.

I'll take offers - top offer, I'll return your e-mail and work out the details for payment via PayPal and shipment.

I'll stop accepting offers on 10/10/12

a2fan at hot ma il .com

Thanks for looking.

[Sean Fahey]

Is anyone interested in an Apple II Ethernet Card? It's a developer seed card, that didn't go into production. It was going to be released at the same time as GS/OS 6.0 (and there are references to it in the Golden Master) but Apple scrapped it. It doesn't do TCP/IP, its just fast Appletalk over Ethernet (wavelan adapter required). Read about it here: http://www.apple2.org/AIIEthernet.html

Something that is actually rare and collectible - not something I'm willing to part with for anything less than $500

[gbo...@bigpond.com]

Sean,
the Ethernet card can send and receive RAW Ethernet packets and a link layer could be created for it to use with Marinetti

Geoff

[pitz]

That's good info. I was wondering about that. Was there some documentation (official or not) on how to talk to the card to send/receive raw packets, or are the docs mainly from ROM disassembly?

/pitz

[gbo...@bigpond.com]

Pitz,
info gleamed from the ROM disassembly

Geoff

[Sean Fahey]

On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 7:39:38 PM UTC-5, gbo...@bigpond.com wrote:

> the Ethernet card can send and receive RAW Ethernet packets and a link layer could be created for it to use with Marinetti

I pitched that idea on irc.a2central.com along with cloning the board, being that it is compromised entirely of off the shelf parts the BOM would be fairly inexpensive. It's not that I'm unhappy with the Uther (or the LANce even) but another Ethernet option would be good for everyone.

[David Schmidt]

I could write a driver for the ip65 stack too. But for the handful of
cards out there, unless it does get cloned, it doesn't seem overly
pressing. Unless it arrives at my doorstep... ;-)

[Sean Fahey]

On Friday, October 19, 2012 6:39:40 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:

> I could write a driver for the ip65 stack too. But for the handful of
> cards out there, unless it does get cloned, it doesn't seem overly
> pressing. Unless it arrives at my doorstep... ;-)

I'm willing to loan it out to someone I know and trust if it's going to benefit the community. David, you are of course are in that category.

Besides myself, I'm aware of at least 3 other people who have these cards - other hardcore collectors and Apple enthusiasts.

Big picture: I'm willing to help fund a cloning effort to get more cards into the community. Others probably would help with money also. We would need someone to drive that project that has the knowledge and skills to clone and fab it, and maybe a small team of programmers to update the firmware and write the necessary interfacing driver support.

If you're in for either helping to fund the card and/or develop software for it, chime in and let's get a project rolling.

[Sean Fahey]

On Friday, October 19, 2012 8:21:45 AM UTC-5, Sean Fahey wrote:

> If you're in for either helping to fund the card and/or develop software for it, chime in and let's get a project rolling.

>>>>

Well, I might have jumped the gun on this - David Schmenk is working on another Ethernet card and posted pics to FB.

Also, 7 people have e-mailed me expressing interest in buying or trading for the card. I wasn't expecting that much turnout.

[David Schmidt]

On 10/17/2012 8:39 PM, gbo...@bigpond.com wrote:
> Sean,
> the Ethernet card can send and receive RAW Ethernet packets and a link layer could be created for it to use with Marinetti

That would be a prerequisite. The design shares some heritage with the
IIe Workstation Card, which presents a co-processed and completely
opaque interface to Appletalk (as opposed to the SCC-based serial
hardware). It was a barrier to re-using the serial ports for
general-purpose communications.

Can/would you share the firmware disassembly?