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From: kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan)
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Subject: Re: hardware pc boards for mac II
Keywords: mac II, pc
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Date: 4 Feb 90 03:20:14 GMT
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In article <4100@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> rlong@phonon.eng.ohio-state.edu (Prof. Ronald Long) writes:
>What is the latest on hardware boards for the Mac II line?
>Who makes pc plug in boards, what are the prices, and how
>well do they work? Is the system as seamless as SoftPC?

There is one board for the Mac II line named Mac286 made by Orange Micro.  It
sells for $1099 in the discount mail order houses.  It's supposed to be a two
board affair (I think it takes up two NuBus slots).  I  don't have one so I
can't comment on it.  However, the blurbs claim that it's approximately 6 times
faster than "software-based solutions" (I assume they mean SoftPC) and it's
compatible with 90% of AT software and has a variety of video output formats
such as CGA, etc.

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