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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Old CP/M card
Message-ID: <1895@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 12:26:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 12:26:47 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 07:05:15 EDT
References: <3495@rutgers.rutgers.edu> <1662@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <15032@topaz.rutgers.edu>
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In article <15032@topaz.rutgers.edu>, kocyan@topaz.rutgers.edu (Kocyan) writes:
> This summer I went to a computer-fleamarket (no, not little mechanical
> insects) and picked up an old Commodore Z-80 card for $3.  Unfortunately,
> it did not come with any software, documentation, or anything.  My old,
.....
> the hook.  What can I do with it?  What software does it run (if any)?
> Am I wasting my time?

I don't have one, but from what I have read about the cartridge....

Oh, well, it's only three dollars.

Apparently there was never much you could do with them, and since very
few of them are out there, nobody is going to try and market any new
products to work with it.  I think I remember hearing that Commodore
itself only ever sold one software item that used the cartridge, but I
can't remember what it was.  Part of the problem was that the 1541 disk
drive isn't able to read "standard" CP/M disks, so having the CP/M
capability did NOT open up the 64 to existing CP/M software.

Your only hope is to look on bulletin boards and online services for
public-domain, home-grown software that individuals who own the thing
have written.

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     Dave Fiske                     \|  /_/ Gee, sorry.
BRS Information Technologies      ---<_/   I didn't mean to
     Latham, NY                    _/ \    crack your screen!
ihnp4!philabs!nyfca1!brspyr1!davef /   >-   Heh, heh, heh.