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Re: Apple II plus clone?
David Schmidt wrote:
> On 11/3/2012 4:47 PM, Sam Latella wrote:
>> Thanks for info... It looks like this one has 7 slots and slot 0 holds a
>> strange ROM board.
>
> The ROM board was a way to decouple the bootleg ROM from the main board
> - a way of circumventing the looming trademark wars for a time.
>
>> What do you mean by Z80? The Z80 card itself? Or is that the 80 column
>> card?
>
> One style of clone board had a Z80 chip (the workings of the Z80 card)
> embedded right on the motherboard. They could offer built-in CP/M
> compatibility that way.
>
Cool... I'll have to check if this clone has it built in... I guess I would
test this by running some CP/M software on it right?