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Apple Serial NB Card

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.
Apple Serial NB Card
The densely packed card has many support chips in addition to the Motorola 68450 DMA (Direct Memory Access) chip, dual serial controllers, CPU, RAM and ROM.
Apple Serial NB Card
Here you can see the two EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) chips that store the A/ROSE software and the 10 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU.
Apple Serial NB Card
The 10 MHz Motorola 68450 DMA chip that provides direct memory access to both serial controller chips.
Apple Serial NB Card
Here you can see the dual Zilog SL1075 SSC chips that drive the serial ports.
Apple Serial NB Card
One of the SCC chips up close.
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