Re: Identifying Appleparts

["Andrew Rodland" <arodland@ptdprolog.net>]

That's like saying "Let's hook up an intel motherboard without a monitor,
keyboard, or any drives, and run QUAKE on it."
You really could say that the mac is the peripheral, as it provides services
to the card, not the other way around


"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote in message
news:388a765b.22389190@news...
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:22:47 GMT, mark.REMOVE.percival@videotron.ca
> (Mark Percival) wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:
> >
> >>Ah, but the IIe Card wasn't a model of Apple II.  It is a peripheral
> >>card for the Macintosh.  :-)
> >
> >I beg to differ Sir.  Certainly the IIe card is the last model of IIe
> >and the Mac LC is the peripheral! ;)
>
> Okay, lets see you hook that card up without a Macintosh and run some
> Apple II software on it.  :-)
>
> It doesn't do anything without a Mac as it isn't a complete computer.
> It requires some of the Macs hardware to actually operate so therefore
> it isn't a computer, it is simply a peripheral card for the Mac just
> like an ethernet card or graphics card or whatever that gives your Mac
> additional functionality.  In this case, the ability to run Apple II
> software.
>
> So I stand by my original statement that the IIe card isn't a model of
> Apple II.
>
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