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From: CMDSEN@primeg.weeg.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: MacLCw/IIe emulator
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Date: 17 Oct 90 14:38:52 GMT
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Now that Macintosh Computer Company, Inc. is planning on releasing a new
Apple IIe :-)  (the MacLC with emulator card for guessed $199) will they be
releasing some new system software for the II's?

To play the devil's advocate:  I understand the emulator board will have a
disk port for a 5.25" drive, but how will I plug in my Transwarp or ZipChip,
or memory expansion card, or Mockingboard, or Vulcan or Sider hard drives,
or audio animator, or Apple Parallel card for my Apple DMP printer, my SSD
ram card, my super-duper does everything but wash dishes home controller/
monitor ;-) ?

If it doesn't have slots, is it a Apple IIe?  Shouldn't they call it an Apple
//c emulator?  Maybe a quarter //c emulator  (256K = 1/4 of 1 Meg memory
expansion Apple USED to offer), or a half //c (2.x MHz about 1/2 of 4 Mhz
speed of IIc+)

What are the chances Video Technology can be pressured into making a quality
Laser computer capable of showing what a II can do very well.  If Macintosh
Computer Co., Inc. won't develop the II, maybe Laser can.  Anyone ever thought
of comp.sys.laser or info-laser.  :-)  Sure would keep the Macintosh users
away ;-)

  --Steve Nelson, University of Iowa
    (Internet: cmdsen@primeg.weeg.uiowa.edu)
    (Bitnet:   cmdsenpg@uiamvs.bitnet)