Colorado Memory Systems Jumperless Tape Controller

Glen Slick glen.slick at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 08:57:09 CDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>
> I think I've got that one as well as the 2Mb/sec follow-on one in my
> hellbox. IIRC, it sets the DMA/port/IRQ via the ISA-PNP mechanism
> (which accounts for the extra logic).
>

The Colorado Memory Systems Jumperless Tape Controller 026-328 PCB has
a copyright date of 1990, which predates the ISAPNP specification by 4
years so it must use a proprietary configuration method.

> Depending on the exact date code and stepping of the 82077, the card
> may or may not support writing FM-encoded data.
>

If it supports FM that would make it useful.

-Glen


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