Thesys Fastcard IV / PMI / Perhiperal Markeing Inc.

[BloodyCactus]

I managed to pull the files off the disk. This is "Fast Card IV Utilities 2.0" version. This was right before PMI did the renaming on them.

I will try and scan the manual over the weekend as well as dump the ROM (v1.06 - 03/25/86)

https://kråketær.com/fc4_20.zip


This has the setup utilities, clock, emm driver, etc. Its all here.

The sad thing, the card is about 2 inches too long to fit in the Tandy 1000 SX

 

[fatwizard]

This is great! The final pieces of the puzzle for this card. I was finally able to get it setup properly, and it WORKS! I've had this card several years now, and I didn't even know if it was functional. Let me know if you get around to scanning the manual, and thanks again.

 

[BloodyCactus]

I do have the manual scanned, by that I mean I did a poor mans scan and take photos with my phone, tied them into a PDF. its about 24mb. I'll see if I can get it on bitsavers or something.

The setup app is neat, asking you questions then showing you a pictograph of the jumper blocks, its very cool!

 

[pevalcas]

Hello,

any news about the manual and the ROM dump?

Am very interested in it. I have a Fastcard III, no I/O, only 2MB of memory board. Hope the drivers you posted will work,ù

Thanks.
Vincent.

 

[BloodyCactus]

I put it on my google drive as a share to all;

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dyf-UFsd5HiF3ukqN008haj6VckgVRw9?usp=sharing

I need to check what I did with the ROM(s)

 

[modem7]

Thank you.

I also added the user manual and software to [here].

 

[BloodyCactus]

Thanks, I wasnt quite sure where to put it!

 

[pevalcas]

Hello,
thank you! I was able to have my Thesys Fastcard III correctly setup. But still it cannot see all the memory. Probably a bad DRAM chip. By a miracle, I also had an hard disk with the Thesys Fastcard III drivers.

if you can recover the FastCard IV bios dump, I would be pleased to get it.

Regards, Vincenzo.

I put it on my google drive as a share to all;

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dyf-UFsd5HiF3ukqN008haj6VckgVRw9?usp=sharing

I need to check what I did with the ROM(s)

 

[BloodyCactus]

Attached "v1.06 03/25/86" EPROM. I suspect its an AM27128 but I also read it as an AM27C256 (same pin count).

There is another rom next to it but it is soldered to the board, not sure I want to desolder and socket it, to dump it yet.

There is also I believe 9 PAL/GAL's on the board, not sure if trying to dump them would be worth it either, might be fuse locked.

View attachment fc4_rom_106.zip

 

[fdiskitup]

I know this is an old thread but It was helpful to me, the attached zip file is the manual, driver disk image for the Fastcard IV but my version is the SB-III, I think, my bios rom is FC IV 01/01/87.

The Thesys Fastcard IV driver disk is also available on minuszerodegrees.net



my only problem with this card is setting the RTC date to this millenium... might be a 2 digit year.