Re: //e, //c, //gs Questions

[leeast@home.com (Lee Eastman)]

>On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 02:32:25 -0700, Chad Choi Lin
><chadlin@nyetcom.com> wrote:
>
>|>5.)  CP/M  ;-)
>|>     Now this is *really* obscure, and might even seem like a silly
>|>joke. But I distinctly remember seeing an advertisement in an Apple II
>|>magazine (back in the 1980s, of course) for a Z80 processor upgrade that
>|>Applied Engineering sold for the //c. It was actually part of a memory
>|>expansion kit, but it supposedly would allow the user to run CP/M on an
>|>Apple! Seeing that CP/M has pretty much become one with the dust of
>|>history, however, this is probably a moot point to bring up.
>

You could buy it with either 512k or 1meg ram on board. It was a 
'daughterboard' that was almost as big as the //c motherboard. The memory could 
be used as a ramdisk for the //c or cp/m. When I finally moved ?up? to a Compaq 
model 1, my //c went to my daughter. We had appleworks, and with the patch 
supplied by I.E., you could load the whole appleworks program into memory. When 
the internal 5.25 drive went bad, the local authorized dealer quoted a price in 
excess of a brand new //c to repair it. I forced my daughter over to a Tandy 
PClone, instead, for which she has yet to forgive me<g>.

Lee