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MS-DOS Cards for Plus and SE

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-05-16 21:02:38 This was a big surprise to me. I've been finding all kinds of crazy stuff browsing through the Macworld archive, but this takes the cake! Has anyone ever seen or heard of these cards?

Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-05-17 02:43:20 Someone sold a similar card here a couple of months ago. I wish I had snagged it. I kinda regret letting it go now. Anyway, it's got an 8086 CPU, not a 286 (unlike the Mac II variant).

Posted by: 360alaska on 2017-05-17 04:04:25 I bought it, I actually had to buy another se also as my other SE has radius 16. It's kinda cool but as far as I know it's MDA graphics only, no black and white dos games. 🙁 The box says CGA (Just like that box) but I don't see a way to enable it...

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-05-17 07:59:39 I'm not surprised at the use of the 8086. It makes a lot of sense in terms of reduced complexity, very low price point in that time frame and possibly power consumption? I've never heard of an external SCSI 51/2" FDD before seeing this ad either. Cool beans!

Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-05-17 08:50:19 Yeah it's a shame they never made any 286/386 cards for the SE/30... Just imagine the possibilities! I've never heard of an external SCSI 51/2" FDD before seeing this ad either. Cool beans! Just google Daynafile  😉

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-05-17 08:59:30 Neat, haven't found an ad for that one yet. I've just started date coding the screencaps I'm doing from the MW  archive. MWYYMM- prefix indicates I ran across this one in later issues by accident and hadn't appended the original suffix date coding. Could be an interesting Peripherals topic in the making.

Posted by: Gorgonops on 2017-05-17 09:23:49 I'm curious about the statement that you can use the "3 1/2 Mac Drive" with it, at least how it relates to the Plus card; the picture's too small and grainy to really make out, but I'm curious if it has any headers on it to interface with the built-in drive. In *theory* at least it would be possible to build a controller capable of reading/writing MS-DOS disks with that drive, although it'd be a non-trivial exercise.

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-05-17 09:43:17 Yeah, that's the problem with doing screencaps from a scanned image of a print ad in PDF. I haven't tested resolutions for anything but increasing the size of an image for scaling to right size in a post. 100% in Acrobat is probably as good as it gets. Might interpolation from a larger scale image capture be any help? Almost done backing up the archive. I sure do wish I had my MacUser library, looking back at Macworld articles is a real tease. Macworld was all but useless in their glossed over technicals by comparison. :-/

Posted by: Themk on 2017-05-17 09:47:49 Are there archives of MacUser anywhere? On a related note, I have seen a Daynafile in the flesh before. I wish it was mine, they are so cool. I have a cousin who used to work for Dayna Technologies, before they got purchased by Intel. They were local to where I live.

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-05-17 10:29:30 If anyone finds a MacUser archive I'll be in hog heaven. Thank goodness I've got tearsheets of a lot of the really interesting stuff in the pages to be scanned pile.

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