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Grex Micros Item 19: Apple: Mac/MS-DOS laptop...
Entered by bad on Thu Dec 5 17:30:48 UTC 1991:

        Anyone know anything about this new Apple laptop/notebook that is
prominently advertised as running MS-DOS software, as well as Mac?
        I saw a commercial on TV, but they keep jerking my PCWeek 
subscription around, and I've been missing the news for a few weeks...is this
a product of the Apple-IBM cooperation? I thought that was only OS stuff...

9 responses total.

#1 of 9 by danr on Thu Dec 5 23:40:07 1991:

Nope. It's a product of Apple-Sony cooperation.  I didn't think it ran
MS-DOS, but then I don't know everything.  :)

#2 of 9 by aaron on Thu Dec 5 23:42:02 1991:

It probably runs Soft-PC.

#3 of 9 by klaus on Fri Dec 6 12:52:35 1991:

There's a bbs in Ypsi. called MaxMac that was running a PC bbs on a Mac
SE-030 emulating a PC.  The idea was to eventually replace the Mac. with
a cheap PC, freeing the Mac for more demanding operations.

#4 of 9 by bad on Fri Dec 6 13:16:57 1991:

Well, it didn't say it ran MS-DOS, just MS-DOS programs.
Still interesting, though.
That they would make one specifically with running DOS stuff as a prominent 
feature.

#5 of 9 by bhall on Tue Oct 6 05:49:51 1992:

With various flavours of Soft-PC you can run DOS or even Windows.  I don't
think they should have said anything like that in print though - running
an emulator is not quite the same as buying a clone.

#6 of 9 by jeffk on Sat Oct 10 15:25:32 1992:

Soft-PC is the magic link.  they are supposed to be coming out with a new
one that will run in Protected MOde.  The older (current) version only runs
a 640K 286 with CGA or EGA.  The new one will be better--if it works!

#7 of 9 by keesan on Mon Feb 23 16:48:15 1998:

Question about a Powerbook 145 B, what should the price be for a used model
in a case, monochrome, trackball, with power supply, and what are its
capabilities and limitations?  What's the latest version of Works for Mac?
What file type does Works 2.0 produce for compatibility with Word, what
version of Word?  (We are about to set up a Mac user with a free modem in
exchange for which he plans to join grex for at least a year.)

#8 of 9 by rcurl on Mon Feb 23 20:42:27 1998:

I have a PB 145B, but with upgraded RAM (8 MB) and HD (160 MB) - i.e., an
8/160. A vendor in MacWorld has a PB 145 4/80 for $500. I use Sys. 7.1 on
it and Netscape 2.0 - upgrades on those would tax it. It's slow by
comparison to more recent Powerbooks, but quite adequate for many uses. 
Some web pages don't show up very well in B&W, though. I use it mobile for
taking minutes, doing correspondence, and e-mail and the web, and for
packet radio and on-the-road maps (with GPS for my location).  Don't know
about 'Works'. Later versions of Word will read earlier versions, but not
vica versa, except with converters.

#9 of 9 by keesan on Tue Feb 24 04:37:55 1998:

Thanks, will pass along the information to our new friend, who was wondering
whether to keep his PB or get a color one.  He has no idea how to use the web
yet, we will try to show him before he makes a decision.  You certainly have
some interesting toys.  A friend of ours at Motorola was working on use of
the GPS system for navigation, but there were problems with the Chicago
skyscrapers bouncing off signals.   
        You may all get more questions on the Mac and the internet in a couple
of weeks, from a new member.

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