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From: dar@cblpf.ATT.COM (David A. Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Old CP/M card
Message-ID: <747@cblpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 09:28:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: cblpf.747
Posted: Fri Oct  2 09:28:38 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Oct-87 07:12:41 EDT
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In article <1895@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske) writes:
| 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.
| 
| -- 
|      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.


I have the complete old CP/M package including manuals and disks. I
have been interested in selling it for sometime now but have not had
any buyers. I have a C128 now and have no need for the thing. If you
are interested send me e-mail. I paid something like $60.00+ for it
new.

AT&T Bell Laboratories
David A. Roth
Columbus, Ohio
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