Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!spam!srj
From: srj@spam.scs.com (Stephen Jamieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: PC transporter in from Applied Engineering
Keywords: transporter info
Message-ID: <711@spam.scs.com>
Date: 8 Nov 90 15:03:13 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corp. - Silicon Design Division
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I am posting this for a friend and am by no means an
apple expert. 

My friend is looking a getting a PC transporter board for
his enhanced Apple IIe. The machine currently has a Sony
Trinitron, Sider 20M hard drive, floppies and some sort
of ram drive called "Ramworks" or something. He is interested
in any experiences with the product including pricing,
compatibility with existing peripherals, good mail order
vendors, etc. 


Some of his immediate questions are:

1. How does it boot ? It seems to have to boot from
   a MS-DOS floppy drive so that must be purchased as
   well ? Transdrive ? 

2. How does it take advantage of the hard drive ? Could
   you boot from there or just store programs ?

3. How does it access the Trinitron ? They mention an
   adapter board to understand PC analog output or
   something. Is this needed ?

4. How well does it run PC applications ? Performance ?


Please mail all responses to me and I'll forward them on via sneakernet.

Thanks in advance.


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