[Ti] a Mac OS X/Windows dual booting machine

Glenn Verhalle glenn at datalinesolutions.net
Wed Feb 26 01:49:56 PST 2003


>Yup, you're right.
>
>The almighty IIGS.. We had a IIGS (GS stands for Graphics and Sound) at my
>high school.. We were always tinkering with it.. It did NOT come with a
>Signed certificate from Woz and his team though :-(  (still have a relative
>- the IIc in my closet).
>
>I think you are referring to the Rana cards? They supplied the II's with the
>functionality of running IBM PC software(around 1984), I don't know about
>running Windblows 3.11 (which came out around '92). Apparently it did not
>work very well. Rana went Chap.11 in 85. There was also the PC Transporter
>Card but neither of these came from Apple (which is what we were talkin'
>about) and they both sucked very hard!

It was the PC Transporter card from Allied Engineerin (not sure about 
that name but something similar to that) but they were also the guys 
who made the first GS accellerator (Transwarp GS) moving it to an 
amazing 7Mhz (I loved the startup sound from the board).

>
>I guess in the context of when a 'PC' card first appeared in an Apple
>computer it was the II era. As far as it actually being useable by modern
>standards though (Win3.11 or 95) it didn't happen until much later (LC).
>
>Bill Reburn
>



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