Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!dcw
From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIe emulator card
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.130036.6406@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 90 13:00:36 GMT
References: <9010161443.AA06719@masig2.ocean.fsu.edu>
Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius)
Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group
Lines: 45

In article <9010161443.AA06719@masig2.ocean.fsu.edu> legler@masig2.ocean.fsu.edu (David M. Legler) writes:
>
>With the recent introduction of the 3 *new* Macintosh models, the Macintosh
>LC has a single slot which is usable for the soon-to-be-released Apple IIe
>emulator card.  
> 
>I have some info about this card:
>256K Ram(128K standard RAM); can also access up to 256K of the Mac LC 
>       computer's memory
...
>Uses Macintosh LC mouse, disk drives, and peripheral ports
>
>Mr. David M. Legler           ||(904)644-1159 or 644-4581  
>Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction ||Bitnet legler%masig1.ocean.fsu.edu@cunyvm
>          Group               ||SPAN   7480::"legler@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu"
>MS B-174   Love-012           ||Arpa   legler@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu(128.186.3.1)
>Florida State University      ||
>Tallahassee, FL  32306-3041   || "An Apple II a day, keeps the PC blues away" 
>      


Just clarify a few points... I was at Apple on the 15th for a job
interview and got to see the LC/][e combo running. The // side can
consume at least 1 meg (although I think this might be dictated by how
much memory is assigned to the driving software on the mac side) of
the mac's memory for itself. This memory appears to the // as an AE
memory card (that's what the engineer said). He ran Appleworks for me
just to show that it all works.

Using the mac hardware (drives, ports, etc) is pretty straightforward.
There's a control panel where you have the set of available hardware
in the mac down below and the seven "slots" above. One just drags the
hardware items into the slots.

In case some of you are wary, the thing was partially designed by one
of the original // designers and has been pretty well tested. The
folks I spoke to were quite pleased that they could run Raster Blaster
no problem. From what I could gather, the MAC DTS engineers I talked
to were pretty excited about this card. I am. It's neat.

--
Dave Whitney			| I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug
Computer Science MIT 1990	| reports. I need a job. Send me an offer.
dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu	| My opinions, you hear? MINE!
dcw@athena.mit.edu		| "Isn't this where..."