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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with the Andor One card?
- Message-ID: <14848@claris.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 21:50:48 GMT
- References: <BrwC2o.J3t@DMI.USherb.CA>
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- In article <BrwC2o.J3t@DMI.USherb.CA>, beauchem@DMI.USherb.CA (Denis Beauchemin) writes:
- >
- > Hi everybody,
- >
- > Sorry if this has been discussed recently but I do not usually have time to
- > keep up with this list...
- >
- > Here it is: Is anybody familiar with the Andor One card that supposedly gives a
- > PC the ability to run Mac software? Someone handed me an article from a French
- > magazine that says this card offers:
- > - 1 68000
- > - 1 MB RAM (up to 4MB)
- > - 1 AppleTalk port
- > - 2 SCSI ports
- > - 1 audio out port
- >
- > The article says that the card is twice as fast as a Mac Classic. I find it
- > difficult to believe. There's one gotcha though: you have to provice Mac ROMs
- > and the Mac OS.
-
- Yup, it is twice as fast as a Classic; it uses a 16MHz 68000--just like the
- PowerBook 100 and Portable.
-
- > BTW, it seems it only accepts Mac 512 or Plus ROMs.
-
- 512Ke or Plus ROMs. You can buy the card with those ROMs, if you want.
-
- > Any information on the performance of the card, where you can get it, quality
- > of support, bugs, ... are welcome. I will summarize.
-
- Unless you need both computers in one case, you'd be better off buying a Classic
- II; it would cost about the same as a functional Andor card (with ROM and
- SIMM memory), and would have a 68030 instead of a 68000. You'd also have more
- up-to-date ROMs.
-
- It makes about as much sense to buy an Andor card as it does to buy an Orange
- Micro 286 or 386 card for a Mac II.
-