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From: wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (William Shakespeare)
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Subject: Re: PC transporter in from Applied Engineering
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Date: 8 Nov 90 18:48:20 GMT
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The PCTransporter (I have one and I love it) does not require that you have
a TransDrive (you can boot from the hard drive), BUT you will need a drive
capable of reading/writing MS-DOS disks in order to get MS-DOS and any other
programs you intend to run onto the hard drive.  On a GS, you can just use
a 3.5" drive hooked up to the PCTransporter, but since non-GS machines don't
usually come with such, you would have to buy it seperately.

The PCTransporter will run an 8086 (or 80186) MS-DOS application and reasonably
fast (much faster than an IBM XT).  The one hitch is the graphics.  CGA only.
That's the bottom of the line for the IBM, not much better than an old AppleII.


Hope this helps,
Bill Gulstad