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Pastimes : Macintosh Support Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (43)	4/19/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Laurens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57

To all: I am looking for a chat/info site on troubleshooting re Powermac and Netscape. There must be several - but I have spent over an hour in vain to find these forums or help-sites. If you can help, please email me your link, or any other suggestions, where to look. Thanks a lot. bolca@worldonline.nl

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (43)	4/19/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: c-man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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 ================= > 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