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

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

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.

in THAT regard, you should add:

6.)  MS-DOS or PC-DOS
    Thanks to Applied Engineering, we have the PC Transporter.  it is
effectively an XT-compatible system using a NEC-V20 CPU.  when it's
being used, it is capable of using most of the resources available to
the system (mine is a //gs, so this includes the built-in clock!).

as an anecdote, when i called BBSs a lot, people would ask what i used
for a program.  i'd tell them either Qmodem or {Commo}, depending on
what i had at the time.  when they asked what i had for a system (they
wanted to brag about their brand-new 386!), i told them an Apple //gs.
many had a tough time accepting that.  <g>

ttyl....

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William Smith
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