On my Atari 520-ST, I have a "Magic Sac" from David
Small, that emulates a Mac 128/512 or a Mac Plus with
the appropriate ROMS.
I bought the optional "Transporter One" which is a
seperate computer (Z-80 Based, I think...) that reads
and writes to 800k Floppies using the Floppy
Controller port and the MIDI ports on the ST to
communicate to the Transporter One.
I also have a Spectre GCR, which is the follow on
product when David Small started his own company.
This unit has something in it that allows it to
read/write to 800k Floppies without the Transporter
One.
The Transporter is slow, and we used to convert Mac
Floppies to the Proprietary Magic Sac 800k Format that
could be accessed with the ST's Floppy Controller.
This was a pretty neat solution at the time, giving
one a FASTER Mac than a Mac, with a bigger screen and
access to Parallel Printers (using "Epstart").
I did a lot of advertising work on my ST back in the
day. Unfortunately, my AERCO Ram upgrade gave up the
ghost, and I can't find the Docs for it.
So, I'm back to 512k unless I want to piggyback some
RAM and take it up to 1024k.
Used to have 2.5mb, which for a Mac Plus was plenty!
Someday, I'll get it working again... Or find a MegaST
cheap with a Hard Drive.
Those were nice systems. A shame Atari didn't sell
them as business computers in a professional form
factor.
I also used to have a Trackstar 128, which would allow
a PC to Emulate an Apple ][+, and with a minor mod to
certain floppy drives... Read and Write Apple II disks
natively.
I've gotta find another one of those someday.
I think I have a board here called a "Hydra", at
least... That's what the guy who sold it to me said it
was... It was a board for an AT that was a MacPlus on
a board, and allowed the PC to run Mac Software. I
don't have any docs, software, or cables for it...
And I'm not even sure this board IS a "Hydra" board.
It has a 68k processor on it, but I don't see any Mac
ROMS.
This might be a terminal emulator board that someone
thought was a Hydra Board.
Regards,
Al Hartman
Philadelphia, PA
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