The Apple Serial NB Card
(820-0264-B) is a 12" NuBus card that will add four standard RS-232-C
ports or two higher speed V.35 ports, plus two RS-232-C ports to any
Macintosh with NuBus slots. Two cables were made for the card. The first
has a single db-62 connector that splits into four db-25 serial
connectors, while the other provides one V.35 port and one RS-232-C
port. When using the 4-port cable two ports operate at a maximum data
rate of 64 Kbit/second, while the other two operate at a maximum of 19.2
Kbit/second. The card was generally used on conjunction with the Apple
Remote Access kit to give a server a pool of four modems for remote
logins. As far as I know, no driver is needed, when installed in a
system the additional ports will be accessible from any program that
uses the Macintosh communications toolbox.
Being a Macintosh Coprocessor Platform card, the Apple Serial NB
Card is equipped with a full 68000 processor running at 10 MHz, 512 KB
of 70ns DRAM and its own ROM.
As with all MCP cards the memory can be expanded to 2.5 MB.