> > Hmmm, good question. Now that the drugs from the visit to the dentist
> > have worn off, the PC Transporter allowed you to hook PC drives to an
> > Apple ][ and read/write PC disks. It didn't actually have a connection to
> > the PC itself.
> I thought it might be something like that, but there's no obvious disk
> controller chip on the board. Of course a 20 pin header could conceivably
> link to an Apple Disk ][, but I doubt it.
Years ago, an associate configured a Quark for external terminal. (Quark
was a tiny 80x86 PC compatible computer like the Ampro little board or PMC
that could fit comfortably into a drive case along with a half height
drive)
We joked about using an Apple as the terminal. Then we could sell the
machine as a "drive" for Apple that would let it run PC software, since
many Apple users wouldn't know or understand that the Apple was only
acting as the terminal, and that the computer was in the drive case.
Our ethics stopped us from doing that kind of marketing.
But others were not so inhibited.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Jul 23 2001 - 21:06:01 BST