"The Orange Micro card is a Wintel compatible computer in your Macintosh" (1997)
"The Orange Micro card is a Wintel compatible computer in your Macintosh" (1997)
Apple also sold their own versions of these cards. It was pretty wild. You could switch between the Mac and PC with a key press, copy and paste between the two environments. And if you had two displays, one could show the PC and one could show the Mac.
One drawback was that storage was expensive during this era. Making room for the PC side took a big chunk out of your hard drive, and buying a bigger hard drive was pricey.
It would be cool if Apple sold the opposite now. Basically a pci-e mac mini that could plug into an empty PC slot for power.
What is the use for the SCSI port?
Most (all?) Macs from that era used SCSI drives. I believe that they also used SCSI peripherals like scanners. The inclusion of the SCSI port is probably so you can connect those.
Something is off with the image in the ad, because it says that every OrangePC comes with 2 serial ports, parallel, game, and sound blaster input, which is not what the picture shows. I would expect something like this:
I recently managed to score a grail machine - a 2003 Mirrored Drive Door M8570 at 1.25Ghz.
Were there ever cards made for this machine?
