Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!Pace@USC-ECLC.ARPA From: Pace@USC-ECLC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Z80 Plus Board by Applied Engineering Message-ID: <17111@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 17:47:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17111 Posted: Thu Mar 1 17:47:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 09:05:50 EST Lines: 20 From: ChrisI 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. -------