Draft:Multifunction card
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The multifunction card and/or multi-I/O card was a commonly-installed
These feature included:
- serial ports
- a parallel port
- a floppy disk controller
- a real-time clock, often with button cell battery backup
- RAM cardfunctionality
- a game port
- possibly a IDE, rarely SCSI
At a minimum, a multi-I/O card offered two serial ports and one parallel port. Such limited multifunction cards were generally just called multi-I/O cards. Most multifunction cards commonly thusly named offered more, but not all multifunction cards offered everything. Technically IBM's
Multifunction cards should not be confused with multi-function card units or machines; altogether different IBM technologies that preceded the