Re: Z80 card?

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <38f7a4b4.670776064@news>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
 
> On 14 Apr 2000 19:58:09 +0200, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
> wrote:
> 
>> For some years, Lifeboat delivered CP/M software on Apple II
>> compatible 5.25" disks.
> 
> I stopped by Goodwill today and there was a box full of 5.25" disks
> that I flipped through and there were a number of disks with Lifeboat
> on the label.  I have no idea if they were Apple II CP/M disks or
> what.
 
There usually was some extra, small, label telling which 5.25" CP/M
format it was.  Chances are that it wasn't Apple CP/M format, since
Lifeboat did support some 30-40 *different* 5.25" CP/M disk formats.
There never was any standard 5.25" CP/M disk format -- the only
standard CP/M disk format was the 8" SSSD format.  Thus, the
difficulty in obtaining CP/M software on your disk format wasn't
unique to Apple CP/M users -- all users of CP/M computers which
lacked an 8" floppy drive did have this problem.
 
> Coincidence is a mind boggling thing.  :-)
 
It indeed is... :-)
 
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