Just a follow up - I managed to track down the manual for this card.
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jesolo wrote on 2020-08-07, 19:52:

Just a follow up - I managed to track down the manual for this card.
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Thanks for posting the manual for this card!

I just found one of these in a recently-acquired "Logi 88-XT".

Did you ever find the driver diskette for this card? I'm interested in the ability to switch between the MDA mode and CGA emulation [16 shades of grey, such wow!]. Sadly the graphics chipset on this card is one of those weird "UDL" ones which have zero information available.

It has RTC and WINCHESTER, IO ports and VIDEO, but no FLOPPY if i understand it correctly? COM2 UART socket is emty?

kdr wrote on 2020-09-23, 07:51:

jesolo wrote on 2020-08-07, 19:52:

Just a follow up - I managed to track down the manual for this card.
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I just found one of these in a recently-acquired "Logi 88-XT".

Did you ever find the driver diskette for this card? I'm interested in the ability to switch between the MDA mode and CGA emulation [16 shades of grey, such wow!]. Sadly the graphics chipset on this card is one of those weird "UDL" ones which have zero information available.

Unfortunately not.
You mentioned that you found one in a PC? Did it have a hard drive? If so, it might be on there?

jesolo wrote on 2020-09-23, 09:37:

Unfortunately not.
You mentioned that you found one in a PC? Did it have a hard drive? If so, it might be on there?

Sadly the HDD (a Fuji FK309-26 MFM drive hooked up to an Adaptec RLL controller) doesn't spin up when power is applied, so it's going into the "maybe fix it later" bin for now.

I would like to eventually recover data from the drive and see what this Logi 88-XT got up to in its previous life.

Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-09-23, 08:06:

but no FLOPPY if i understand it correctly?

Floppy connector is the 34-pin header at the extreme end of the card.

My card also has an empty spot for the second UART chip.

I'm excited to try the CGA emulation (using the jumpers to 'force' that mode) and see how it looks on my MDA monitors. And check how accurate it is: what will 8088 MPH do to the poor thing?

CN10 and CN9 are winchester data connectors, and this means that this ONLY 34pin header IS winchester control port, and not floppy port. Because if there were 2 34pin connectors, then yes you have winchester ST506/ST412 connector, and a floppy connector. they both have the same pin count, but not the same pinout.

Just saying, that be careful inserting a floppy there.

Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-09-23, 12:51:

CN10 and CN9 are winchester data connectors

CN9/CN10 are the RS232 serial port headers.

OK. Then they are with some kind of strange pinout. Because usually com ports are only 9 pin connector. like that MOUSE connector in the right upper corner.

I realize I'm very late to the party but.... I was just looking for more information on this particular card (as I own one in my old XT) and I happen to have the original system disk (which even has a graphical demo or slideshows on it, which I remember from 30 years ago). If anyone here is still interested, I'd be happy to share it.

From this I also remember that this weird but interesting I/O controller also has a joystick port.

dpl wrote on 2022-05-16, 20:01:

I realize I'm very late to the party but.... I was just looking for more information on this particular card (as I own one in my old XT) and I happen to have the original system disk (which even has a graphical demo or slideshows on it, which I remember from 30 years ago). If anyone here is still interested, I'd be happy to share it.

From this I also remember that this weird but interesting I/O controller also has a joystick port.

Hi there.
I'd be happy if you could share it.

No problem then, I'll dig it up and post a link here. 😀
I'm sure I also have the manual to that card (on paper) so I'll scan it to PDF and add that too.

I think I'll get around to it coming weekend.

For those that are intested, check the picture of the version of the card that I have...

Hi, I managed to track down the 5,25" floppy disk (1987/1988) backup a bit sooner than I had expected...

So here it is, the G7 Utility Program (v4.2) disk that came with the computer.

I'm not sure how it'll run on faster computers but I remember the (graphic) demo ran nicely on XT in 4.77/10 MHz mode, explaining many of the features and settings this card has to offer.

From the G7-READ.ME file:

G7 MONOCHORME GRAPHICS DRIVER includes the following programs: […]
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G7 MONOCHORME GRAPHICS DRIVER includes the following programs:

G7-NEWS - Information from other G7 users. Share their information
may help you to use your G7 more effectively.

GWFIX.EXE - Program to fix error in CORONA basic ver 1.4

G7 DEMONSTRATION SET includes :

DEMO.BAT - Type "DEMO" at DOS prompt to run a demonstration of G7.

DEMO - Directory that contains all the necessary programs for demo.
(Note that to run DEMO program, not less than 512K RAM is
necessary.)

Note :

1) For the users using composite color or composite monochrome display mode:

Composite Color mode --- it is recommended to use 40 col x 25 row
in text mode.

Composite Monochrome mode --- In the user's manual, DIP switch in XT mother
board is set to 40 col. x 25 row in text mode.
However, you can select 80 col. x 25 row by
setting position 5 ON and 6 OFF.

2) Since you have obtained the latest version of G7, the G7.COM, G7.SYS
and G7INSTALL.BAT are no longer needed. You can ignore the note to
monochrome graphics mode users in the G7 User's Operation Manual if

it has.