Re: Rumor or Fact? Was the Mac Emulator card for the //gs....

[Gregory Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <301120031524264790%lockar@nospam.com>,
 Lockar <lockar@nospam.com> wrote:

>    I was just wondering, if any of you guys know if this was just
> vaporware or if a card was actually made.
> 
>      I remember long time ago, in the late 80's the Apple // users
> group I was in kept talking about a card called the 'duet' card.  It
> was a Macintosh emulator card for the GS.  They said that the card was
> actually made but Apple decided not to put it out because it would
> interfer with the Mac Sales.   
> 
>    If this card did exist at one time, did any one see this card
> actually function. I am guessing that it was just a 68000 at 5mhz ot
> 7mhz...

I consider the chance that it was real - or even planned - to be 
vanishingly small. It would have been nearly as expensive as a 
contemporary Mac and haven't got a clue how you would reasonably handle 
some of the ancillary differences like screen size.