Re: Unidentified IIe Card !!!

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <1e9rr1z.1f8a2bh18sdqvmN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:


>Scott Alfter <salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <3906d5dd.0@news.acay.com.au>,
>> Leslie Ayling <layling@intercoast.com.au> wrote:

>> >There was also a 68000 card (I know, because I have one) that allowed
>> >you to run CP/M-86 aswell.
>> 
>> I think I saw an ad for one of these long ago, but it was aimed more at
>> running MacOS than CP/M-86 (wasn't that an x86-based OS anyway?).
>
>Yes.  CP/M-86 requires an 8088 or 8086, so a 68000 card would have
>nothing to do with it.
>
>The 68K version of OS/9 seems a more likely prospect.  MacOS would be
>highly improbable.
>
>Was there ever actually a 68K card which made it to the market?  I
>remember hearing about one being designed, but I don't remember it being
>released.

Stellation Two advertised a 68008 card with an assembler and Forth to match
(inCider magazine, December 1986). They also sold 6809 cards. Cirtech had a
Macintosh emulator card for the Apple II (GS only I think) but never
released it.


Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws
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