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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (43)4/19/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: c-man  Read Replies (1) of 57
 
You'll have to scrounge around in the marketplace for a used, refurb, or OLD STOCK new PowerPC 4400/200 or 7300/200 that had the DOS Compatability card bundle. They are becoming rare, and went out of production end of last year if I recall. True....Apple has no plans to ever release a DOS comp. unit again according to RUMORs I hear.

Or....you can just purchase the DOS card outright (Cyrex 100MHz, Intel 100MHz, or the 166MHz version of either) and then mount it. Better check to see if your Mac needs a 7" or a 12" card...your PCI slot length is the key.

Apple so much as said the SoftWINDOWs and Virtual PC products were getting "good enough" to cover this segment of the market so they didn't feel compelled to continue the hard card approach. It was also a very tiny niche to them and arguably not profitable. Judging how much extra they wanted for the DOS comp version of the same non-DOS unit, I can see how sales were sluggish. Apple usually wanted as much as $600 or more premium for the card, or sold the card for $800+ as a stand alone unit.

c-man
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> Toby,

> I don't know what previous models with PC boards are still currently
> available. What I read in Macuser(World) was that no new models were
> going to be offered with PC boards installed from Apple.

> Clarence
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