The ultimate System 6 box — #23

Post #23 by eraser

Source Forum	The ultimate System 6 box — #23
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Tue, 22 May 2012 - 20:54
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/the-ultimate-system-6-box.25429/

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Note that I deliberately wrote in that piece: "According to Apple, the drive and controller cards are not compatible with Macs with FDHD ROMs."

Understood. :b&w:

The Orange NuBus 386 card -- perhaps not all versions -- is the one with an ISA slot which I used for my experiments here: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/O386.html I didn't get it working well with System 6, but others may be more successful.

Your writeup on the Orange card is very nice and it was where I first discovered that these cards existed. The ISA slot was something that was exciting to me at first but after reading your writeup I became much less interested in the card. It seemed like you had to build a full PC inside the Mac to get VGA, etc. The later PC Compatibility cards do a much better job of making those features seamless. If the Orange card had onboard VGA and you could use the ISA slot for a SoundBlaster card or something then that would be a bit more cool.