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in article <UYIea1y00Uo1I-MkQa@andrew.cmu.edu>, zl04+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Zachary Shanes Levow) says:
> A couple of questions:
>         1) does or to what extent does spectre
>         handle AppleTalk?

	The Spectre 128(tm) and/or Spectre GCR(tm) does not support
AppleTalk(tm).  AppleTalk requires hardware that the ST does not have. 
Several companies are considering developing AppleTalk interfaces for
the ST.  If/when an AppleTalk interface is available for the ST the
Spectre will be upgraded to support it.  (Of course some of the
companies have been talking about building AppleTalk interfaces for over
2 years so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it.)

>         2) does it handle Mac  color?

	The Spectre 128 uses the 128K Mac(tm) OS ROMs.  The 128K ROMs do not
support color displays.  The only Macs with color support are the Mac II
and the Mac IIx which have 256K ROMs with color quickdraw.

>         3) what does GCR stand for?

	Group Code Recording, the data encoding method used by the Mac
for floppy disks.  The Spectre GCR adds the hardware and software the ST
needs to use GCR disks.  The ST normally uses MFM disks (Modified
Frequency Modulation).



				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM