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  • Apple 2 with IBM/PC/MS-DOS?

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 4 19:49:24 2024
    Back in the rad 80s, I remember someone's computer that had both Apple 2
    and IBM/PC/MS-DOS. What was this computer?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
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  • From Steve Nickolas@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Jan 4 19:50:49 2024
    On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Ant wrote:

    Back in the rad 80s, I remember someone's computer that had both Apple 2
    and IBM/PC/MS-DOS. What was this computer?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)


    PC Transporter?

    -uso.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Steve Nickolas on Fri Jan 5 16:11:57 2024
    On 2024-01-05 00:50:49 +0000, Steve Nickolas said:
    On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Ant wrote:

    Back in the rad 80s, I remember someone's computer that had both Apple 2
    and IBM/PC/MS-DOS. What was this computer?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)


    PC Transporter?

    -uso.

    There were a few cards for the Apple II, Macintosh, and Amiga that let
    you run PC / MS-DOS programs. Usually they were basically an entirely
    separate computer that you booted into instead of the host computer
    (you couldn't use both at once) while still using the host's computer's keyboard, etc.

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  • From Steve Nickolas@21:1/5 to Mike Spangler on Tue Jan 9 15:13:18 2024
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Tue, 9 Jan 2024, Mike Spangler wrote:

    I have a Mac Quadra 640 with a PC card built in. I never used the PC
    side. I have nothing to run on it. It's a 80486 processor I think. There were several models of Macs that had PC compatibility by various add-in cards.

    I've got a Performa 636 (same thing, crippled CPU) without the card...was going to use it, but wasn't able to find a way to hook it up to my LAN
    (tried an Asanté SCSI-to-Ethernet dongle, it didn't work - might be a limitation of the router though come to think of it).

    -uso.

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  • From Oliver Schmidt@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 18 11:49:45 2024
    Hi,

    It may have varied depending on card but CPM had to use the 6502 to
    operate the disk and console.

    Yeah, most of the "CP/M 2.2 for the MS Softcard" BIOS is 6502 code.

    Regards,
    Oliver

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