Re: CPM card

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <tb8avv52ve9fdc@corp.supernews.com>,
Eduardo Luccas <elucas@sti.com.br> wrote:
 
> In article <3AB29A43.672B4025@mts.net> , Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mts.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>> Help I have just aquried an apple 2 with a number of cards and a large
>>> amount of software. One of these is a dec card with a z80 processor. Of
>>> course I do nit have any instrustion . How do I utilise this card (i do have
>>> disks with cpm/os on.
>>> 
>>> Graeme
>>
>> Correct. You need the floppies with CP/M on them to access the CP/M
>> card. As to how to run the programs just look for a .com or .exe file
>> and type the name without the extension (like MSDOS).
> 
> And, to be usefull, when you use CP/M on Apple II you need an 80 colum card
> (or memory expansion in auxiliar slot if you have a IIe). The card need to
> be in slot #3.
 
...or optionally a Super Serial Card (or, if you're stingy and
masochistic, the older Comm Card) in slot 3, and a serial terminal
connected to it.
 
Yes, an 80-column screen is essential in CP/M since a lot of CP/M
programs assume 80 colums.  Lower case characters are noce to have
too.
 
Once, back in my pre-80-column days, I tried to configure Wordstar
for 40 columns.  Wordstar refused to work in that mode, and closer
reading of the documentation revealed that Wordstar required a
minimum of 64 columns....
 
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