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From: eww@oberon.LCS.MIT.EDU (Wes Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: DBASE III+ for Apples?
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 15:45:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 15:45:47 1987
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I just got off the phone with a tech rep from Applied Engineering. He
was explaining the operation of the 'Lil Blue card from AE. I was 
surprised to find out that the following things are possible with
a ][e :

1:The Apple 5.25 drives can be used to read (read only) IBM formatted
disks and access data or programs for the AE card.

2:The Sider hard drive when formatted to ProDos can store IBM data and
programs for access under operation of the AE card

3:Clock speed of the card is 8.sompthingsompthing HZ and users should
see little differences in program operation time

4:IBM type drive (price from AE) to enable read / write to IBM disks is
in the high 200 $ range. (I neglected to ask if it was 360K or 1.2 MEG)

___________________________

As a long term Apple user (][e) I reflected on my original purchase some 
time ago when I saw that one could push and pull cards. I said, "Wow,
that machine will be able to stick around awhile!" and then bought it.

I am interested in opinions of users of MS DOS systems on a ][e. I have
beeworking with Lotus 123, Dbase + and Xywrite at work and would love to
continue with these at home on the Apple. None of my cpu friends are doing
this presently. As the subject seems pertinent to the group I suggest answers
to the Net.
 Thanks-----> eww@oberon.lcs.mit.edu.arpa