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"The Orange Micro card is a Wintel compatible computer in your Macintosh" (1997) (lemmy.ml)

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.