Re: Is it true that Apple computers can run MS DOS?

[fmc@aphasia.us.com (Frank McConnell)]

Eric Fischer <enf1@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Actually, Applied Engineering had a card for the II series which added
>an 80x86 processor and a hunk of RAM and let you run MS-DOS if you really
> [...]
>
>There was also an earlier 8088 coprocessor for the IIe, not for the sake
>of MS-DOS but for use as an actual coprocessor to speed up math and such.

It goes back farther than that.  PCPI (same folks who made the
Appli-card 4/6MHz Z80 card, aka StarCard if you bought it bundled with
WordStar from Micropro, and later went on to do laser printers) made a
doohickey called the 88CARD that let you run MS-DOS 1.25.  It didn't
do anything special to read PC floppies; you got to suffer with ~140KB
5.25" disks.

When I got it (1987? 1988?...it was a closeout, and it was cheap) I
decided to have some fun and call PCPI to see if they had a developer's
kit for it.  This had been successful some years earlier (1984?) when
I got the Appli-card at a computer store going-out-of-business auction.
[Un]fortunately, they didn't have anything for the 88CARD.

Note followups (away from comp.sys.mac.misc for this part of the thread).

-Frank McConnell