It’s a data I/O card by laguna systems USA 1991.
It has a rear port of some kind? I don’t know if this is SCSI or what ?
The I/O port has (3) rows of 20 for a total of 60-pin connection.
A google tells me that the two 28 pin devices are 2048x9 FIFO RAM.
You appear to have one half of a data acquisition device - the interface is 99% certain to be a parallel proprietary interface.
It certainly is not SCSI, nor is it a multiport serial interface.
A further google for "Laguna Conversion systems" found some links to adverts in InfoWorld in 1990.
"Read and write any 9 track tape or 3480 tape cartridge with your PC (DOS/UNIX)."
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Tape streamer interface card? Pre-SCSI...
Does this card require drivers and what software will work with this tape backup interface?
this is a junk card nowdays, why bother? even if you had the missing part and media , what would be the use ? backing up on some 30 y.o. tapes that could combust any moment? 🤣
wrote:Does this card require drivers and what software will work with this tape backup interface?
I assume that the only way you could possibly still get drivers is to use some ancient copy of Unix (or a *BSD) that has the driver integrated. However, seeing it's a 8 bit ISA card, the corresponding tape streamer is likely very hard to find (by the mid-1990s most tape streamers were SCSI...). And corresponding media is probably even more difficult to find...especially taking into account the tendency of magnetic tape to deteriorate over time.
Flog it on ebay, and if it doesn't sell, pull the two FIFO devices, and flog them on ebay and scrap the card...
A Pertec Interface card for this
pinout - http://www.sydex.com/overcbl.html
more info - http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?174 … star-tape-drive
