Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!dptg!mtune!rkh
From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIe emulator card
Message-ID: <853@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:00:10 GMT
References: <9010161443.AA06719@masig2.ocean.fsu.edu>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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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:
>From the 'official' What's Ahead From Apple Apple IIe Card Information Sheet:
>
> {deleted}
>
>Available March 1991

This, at least, gives some time to flame the mgmt at Cupertino about
lack of support on the // line...

>Price (retail) is $199 (Gulp!)
>
>Seems like a VERY REASONABLE price (Price of Mac not-withstanding) for 
>this capability.  

Of course, what isn't mentioned here is the roughly $3K cost of the LC with
a color monitor.  The school and home market that the //e card is supposedly
targeted for is going to be a lot less likely to cough up this kind of money
when they can get a noname PC clone for one-third as much and then buy Tandy's
Trackstar board to run their Apple programs on.......

						Bob Halloran
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