• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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    9 months ago

    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?