cchao@hplabsb.HP.COM (Chia Chao) (09/12/89)
Greetings, I have been looking for a way to run Apple][ programs on my IBM AT clone. A local dealer offered me an used QUADLINK board from QUADRAM with no documentation nor software for $50. The board seems to be pretty old-- 1983 is the date on the board and it is no longer carried by QUADRAM. I am wondering if there is any QUADLINK user on the net care to comment on its compatibility and where I might be able to find documentation and other support? Thanks in advance Chia Chao HP Labs cchao@hplabs.hp.com
SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (09/12/89)
On Mon, 11 Sep 89 20:30:51 GMT you said: >I have been looking for a way to run Apple][ programs on my IBM AT clone. >A local dealer offered me an used QUADLINK board from QUADRAM with no >documentation nor software for $50. The board seems to be pretty old-- I have not actually used one, but once had a chat with a game developer who owned one. The Quadlink does a 40 COLUMN Apple II+ (no provision for 80 column card, modem, etc). Aside from game playing, it's mostly a handy device for copying text files from MS-DOS to DOS 3.3 (I doubt there's any chance that the card can be convinced to boot ProDOS). I suspect some sort of PC sofware is essential to activate the card (so that the IBM disk drives will read the Apple II format). If you have one of those AT 1.2 Mbyte drives that has trouble formatting an MS-DOS 360K disk, you may have little hope of even reading a (140K) Apple DOS 3.3 disk. I recommend you ask the dealer to stick it in one of HIS AT's and show you that it works (an alternative would be to tell him you'll accept $50 to take it off his hands :-) I believe QualLink remains in business, but I would hardly be surprised to discover they no longer support that product (the old "Gee, our last Apple II technition left our employee several years ago" routine). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)