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Odd that page doesn't link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard Many Apple II owners had this card, allow
by js2 4y ago
Odd that page doesn't link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard
Many Apple II owners had this card, allowing us to run CP/M, for the sole purpose of using WordStar and dBase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
Talk about a killer app. For others it may have been dBase:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase
Once AppleWorks was available (1984), I think most folks switched to it from WordStar. There was also Apple Writer first available in 1979 but I don't ever recall using it.
https://www.apple2history.org/history/ah19/#02 https://www.apple2history.org/history/ah19/#02
https://archive.org/details/apple-writer-a2-v1.1-ph/components/apple%20writer%20-%20manual/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/apple-writer-a2-v1.1-ph/componen...
- PaulHoule 4y agoThe C-128 had both a 6502 like the C-64 and Apple but also a Z-80 that was set up to run CP/M much like the Softcard for Apple. I was lucky to get a C-128 for free just around the time everybody was switching to PC's, though my main computer at the time was a 486DX2 running Linux that I named "Ryo-Oh-Ki". I remember using that machine to capture sounds in an anechoic chamber and then plugging it into a serial multiplexer to login to the internet with SLIP and upload files to the Unix cluster I was using in grad school.