Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!braille!bill
From: bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: MicroSoft Premium SoftCard //e
Message-ID: <113@braille.uwo.ca>
Date: 14 Nov 90 21:18:05 GMT
Reply-To: bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss)
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Organization: The Computer Braille Facility University of Western Ontario.
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I have, as you may have guessed from the title, a Premium SoftCard //e.  
For those of you who don't know, it is a CP/M 80 board that fits into
the aumiliary slot.

Just for fun, I recently dredged up an adapted version of Modem7 for my 
//e and tried to use it.  The main claim to fame that it offers is a 
useful batch receive/transfer function.

The problem is that I have no way of converting CP/M text into usable
ProDOS text.

On a whim, I telephoned MicroSoft in Washington and they have a 
"Application Note for Special configurations ..." for the SoftCard.
Unfortunately, they are not allowed to send stuff to Canada from the
states.  I telephoned Microsoft in Mississauga (it's near Toronto or
part of Toronto almost) and they are trying to get the stuff for me
from the states.  The people I talked to clearly didn't understand 
what I was talking about so I am not holding my breath.

FINALLY THE QUESTIONS!!!!

1.   Doesn anybody out there have a program for converting CP/M text
     to ProDOS 8 text?

2.   If anyone out there has a Premium SoftCard, what revision do you
     have?  I have 2.26.

3.   The Premium SoftCard is not capable of accessing a larger than
     5 MB hard disk, because of some change in the disk controller.
     Does anyone have or know of, :

     1)   Software for partitioning a hard drive for CP/M

     2)   Software that might allow my SoftCard to access a 10 MB
          hard drive?

Thanks verymuch in advance.  Please email responses.

Bill Carss
bill@braille.uwo.ca
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Bill Carss
bill@braille.uwo.ca       (Please Note the Lower case!!)