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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II with MS/DOS Card
Message-ID: <687@stech.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 88 12:29:10 GMT
References: <9579.2245.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <9579.2245.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>, Dan Lepel - USEREBUH@mts.rpi.edu says:
> 
> 
>    Hello folks.  I've only today started to follow this group,
>    so if my question can be answered by some previous response,
>    just let me know.
> 
>    I'm looking at getting a MAC II next semester, and I'm curious
>    about the card which is available for emulating an MS/DOS
>    environment for running such programs. (As an MBA, I feel this
>    versatility necessary).  Who makes and sells these cards?
>    Are there problems with incompatibilities?  And how much extra
>    can I expect to spend.  Also for a nonprogrammer, are there
>    any special advantages to the IIX aside from speed?
>    Thanks for your responses ahead of time.

The board of which you speak (it's actually two boards chained together with
a ribbon cable, so that it takes up two NuBus slots) is made by AST and has
an 80286 chip. It comes with 4 - 256K SIMMs, giving you a 640K machine. You
can replace the 256K SIMMs with 1 meg SIMMs to upgrade the RAM.

I've had one in my Mac II since August, and am very, very pleased with it.
I paid just under $1100 for it. The MS-DOS runs in a Mac window. It
emulates both monochrome and CGA video (assuming you have a color monitor).
It also has a driver for the Micrsoft mouse, which seems to work quite well 
with the Mac mouse.

A PC floppy drive can be attached directly to the board; that becomes drive A.
Drive C is a single file on a Mac hard disk which can grow to 20 meg. In
addition, drive D can be any Mac folder you wish. Drive D can also be a
DaynaFile, which is how I happen to have things set up.

I have yet to find a PC program that won't run. Performance seems to be a
bit better than an AT. And for a writer like me, this is an ideal setup, since
I can get screen shots of the PC screen (with command-9) with I can then
edit and paste into my documents (I generally use FullWrite).

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop
BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY

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