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Re: Apple II plus clone?

On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, David Schmidt wrote:


On 11/3/2012 6:34 PM, Sam Latella wrote:

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?
That's one way. Or just look on the board for a big long chip with a Zilog or Z80 marking on it...
Goldstar Z80s (Korean clone - the company's now known as LG) don't say Z80 anywhere on them. I don't think NEC or Sharp Z80s do either. 

-uso.