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Help to ID an unknown 16-bit ISA board (Curtis INC ROMRISK PCM2, 1993)?

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First post, by lausvi

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Hi.
I posted this yesterday on VCFED.org, and already got some ideas what this might be. Perhaps somebody here can also help?

Included in a local auction with couple misc. ISA boards, I got this mystery board, see photos below (sorry for the potato-quality).

Can anyone shed any light on what it might be? My google-fu failed me and I can't find any leads on this.

The board says: "CURTIS INC. TM ROMDISK PCM2 PWB P/N C8000 Rev. C Copyright 1993". Sticker on the back reads "CS202068". The main IC is "Symphony SL82C365G", there are two 50-pin male headers and a high-density male header on the rear. And a beeper!

The 50-pin headers make me think of SCSI, could this be some kind of SCSI controller and/or cache? Or by the name 'ROMDISK' - a software lock for a disk to make it read-only, perhaps?

I haven't been able to test this in a computer yet!

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Reply 1 of 1, by Horun

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It is a PCMCIA Bridge card for a PC/AT computer, the front panel slot part is needed.
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Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

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