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From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
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Subject: Re: MacLCw/IIe emulator
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Date: 17 Oct 90 18:39:01 GMT
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In article <9010171437.AA06284@apple.com> CMDSEN@primeg.weeg.uiowa.edu writes:
>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,
							^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Good question, but the thing already has 2 speeds (hi and lo, what the
MHz are, who knows...)

>or memory expansion card, or Mockingboard, or Vulcan or Sider hard drives,
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No need as you can steal ram from the Mac.
Just drop more SIMMS on the board.  Mockingboard is what? Speech
synth? Someone will think of something. Hard drives? Use the SCSI on
the Mac.

>or audio animator, or Apple Parallel card for my Apple DMP printer, my SSD
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ stereo card? good question. parallel printer? Drop the $90 for a serial <-> parallel converter and use the internal port.

>ram card, my super-duper does everything but wash dishes home controller/
 ^^^^^^^^  drop SIMMs on the mac.
>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
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes. On the other hand, it's much more flexible than the
//c. "Adding" memory is simply a matter of asking for more from the
Mac; "slot" assignment is very flexible; etc.
>
>  --Steve Nelson, University of Iowa
>    (Internet: cmdsen@primeg.weeg.uiowa.edu)
>    (Bitnet:   cmdsenpg@uiamvs.bitnet)


Obviously, this isn't the solution for all of us. On the other hand,
it *does* make a good first time computer as it costs about as much to
bring this thing up to speed as it does a GS. It's a mac, which is
what Apple wants everyone to have in the future (like it or not - I'm
not arguing about that). It runs older // stuff and it's pretty
flexible (although not very expandible). Adding RAM is easy, and the
more daring can probably swap drive mechanisms to bring it up to 80mb.
Most folks don't *need* a whopping powerful computer (read: lots of
speed, math hardware, virtual mem, etc), and I think this is a good
machine to fill that market.
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