3 Dec
2009
3 Dec
'09
9:51 p.m.
There was a 386 PC-compatible card for the Symbolics 3640/45/70/75
series Lisp machines (no, really).
http://www.asl.dsl.pipex.com/symbolics/photos/3600/386coproc_3789-2.html
I'd love to get my hands on one (I guess I'd need an LBUS 'bolix
first...), though I'd be willing to bet the software to drive it is nigh
unobtanium at this point.
I have an Orange386 in my IIfx (along with a Radius Rocket II)... it's
like having a PC and an extra Mac, inside a Mac... at the same time.
Why? Because I can.
- Josh
Brian Lanning wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Wasn't there a thing cammed MacCharlie? A box
that sat alongside a
classic Mac and connected to the serial port (?). It had a 5.25" drive
built in and would run PC software using the Mac keyaord and display.
Yep. Looked like a classic mac cut in half vertically with two black 5.25"
floppy drives mounted sideways in place of the monitor. It was designed to
sit right next to the mac. Interestingly, it came with this weird keyboard
doc. You plugged the mac keyboard into this thing and it added a numeric
key pad and the 2 rows of 5 function keys down the left side just like the
5150/5160 keyboard.
brian