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

Henry Kalir kalirhe at UMDNJ.EDU
Wed Feb 26 08:52:54 PST 2003


On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Bill Reburn wrote:

> On 2/26/03 1:49 AM, "Glenn Verhalle" <glenn at datalinesolutions.net> wrote:
> 
> >> 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).
> 
> Hilarious!
> 
> Not to strectch this thread longer than it's already been,
> 
> But I have to say my FAVOURITE upgrade of that day was the 80 Column upgrade
> card.. A friend and I both had IIe's and I got one before him.. Boy did I
> brag! hahaha

Oh, YES...that 80 column card...lol

Whatever happened to Allied Engineering?

Best,

Henry



More information about the Titanium mailing list