PC/Apple/etc. Cards Worth Keeping/Storing

[Tony Duell]

[[SA cards]

> floppy drives? Maybe a better question; are they any cards worth saving?

Ones I would certainly save include : 

Any original IBM cards, as docuemtned in the Techrefs (I am still 
dreaming of finding a Professional Graphics Controller...)

'Famous' cards, like the original Hercules graphics card, AST Sixpack, etc

Any lab/realtime cards (digital and analogue I/O, etc)

Anythign with a user-programmable processor on it (this includes DSP 
cards, transputer cards, coprocessors, etc)


> I am keeping all the disk controller cards, memory expansion cards, and
> any specialized cards. Are they any Apple IIx cards worth saving? My

For the Apple ][, I'd keep anything apart from the Disk // card (which is 
very common). Language cards are also pretty easy to find. 

Lab I/O cards, coproesseors (at least the Z80 and 6809 exist), serial 
ports (common, but very useful to transfer data to the Apple from a PC) etc 
are worth saving.

> general rule there has been that if I have the docs, they are worth
> saving.

Depends on how good the docs are :-). The bit of paper you get with 
no-name PC multi-I/O cards probably doesn't count. Having a real manual 
with programming details and maybe even a schematic would certainly cause 
me to save the card (and the manual, of course).

-tony