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Sorry, Charlies: IBM on the Mac way ahead of its time. (11 Years Ago in Infoworld) (News Briefs)(Column)
August 26, 1985--The Macintosh has always been part machine, part religious experience, especially in the early years. People who liked the Macintosh sought it out like crusaders pursuing the Holy Grail. Corporate standards be damned; the Macintosh was better, they said. PC managers, trying to make sense of the chaotic desktop environment, found themselves trying to argue partners and executives out of their computers of choice in the name of standards and compatibility.
Enter the Mac Charlie, an add-on device from Dayna Communications designed to allow Macintoshes to use PC software. The "sidecar unit" housed an 8088 processor, 2 PC-type disk drives, and 640KB of memory, …
