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From: Pace@USC-ECLC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: Z80 Plus Board by Applied Engineering
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 17:47:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 17:47:00 1984
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From:  Chris 


	I can't talk to the question you posed directly, however I
just had a bout with a the ALS Z-card that may be worth considering.
The Z-card ($129) was purchased mail-order so that I could run wordstar
and do some work for downline loading to another z-80 computer.
I also had Microsoft's Ramcard.
	To make a long story short, the z-card came with cpm and several
utilities.  Most of the utilities didnt bomb, but didnt work either.
The 60K system generation utility failed to produce a bootable CPM
system.  After a long delay and several long distance phone calls to the
mail-order firm, ALS finally got back to us saying that there was a 
"timing problem between the z-card and microsoft's ramcard."  After
two iterations of this, I gave up and got microsoft's cpm and card
which was up and running a 60k system in 15 minutes.
	Cheapness doesnt always pay off - either in time or money.

		Chris.
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