Re: Q: DSP card?

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

bj1nx@voicenet.com (D Murray) wrote:
> I remember hearing of a programmable DSP card for the Apple//gs, was
>wondering if it was ever made and released, Also is there a XT (ibm) card
>by any chance?

The DSP card never came out.  It was being designed by someone in
Japan, but the guy was a 1WSW member and, well, the Apple community
is full of politics.

The XT card was called the PC Transporter.  It was better than a
real XT (I've used both)...faster speed and faster disk access compared
to an XT, but slow compared to a GS in native mode.  The processor is
a V30, an 80186 clone and it could run some '286 software that used
only the instruction subset shared with the '186.  The only thing
better in a real XT was that the XT had a choice of Hercules display
(high res...approx. 768x512 black and white) or CGA (4 colors at
320x200 and black and white at 640x200).  The Hercules display was
much superior.

You can set up an alias (aka. shortcut or shadow or whatever) of
a PC program on the GS's Finder desktop and launch it from there
and it also has one of the best MS-DOS to ProDOS and back transfer
programs around.  In Apple mode, the PC Transporter gave you a
768K RAM disk.

-Scott G.