Re: Some other Questions

[Jeff Billman <jeff_billman@~nospam_hp.com>]

Warren,

The AppliCard was a  Z-80 coprocessor card running CP/M-80 2.2.  The
expansion connector was for more memory if I remember correctly.  The
board had one advantage over the M$ softCard of the same vintage.  The
Appli-Card gave you 70 column video.  It did this by doing it's I/O to
the hi-res video page.  The dealer I worked for sold a few of these
cards.  They came bundled with MicroPro Word Star word processor.  The
deal was you buy the software and the card was free.

Regards,
Jeff Billman



> APPLI-CARD  By PCPI (personal computer products inc.)
> 
> This card has two rows of 4 x 64k ram chips at keyboard end. next is a
> vertical 50 pin connecter like internal scsi.  next is two rom sockets
> and a z-80 cpu, one rom socket has  APPLI-CARD SN35634  BOOTSTRAP V9.0
> (c) PCPI  1982 in it.  after that is the usual collection of sn74ls
> chips.   the card also has a 10 pin connector above the ram