Re: What is a Z80 card?.

[wilker@math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)]

There were two variants of the Z80 card

1) the Microsoft version ( and clones) had a Z80 chip
and very little else. In particular, no DRAM.
It depended on Apple II for
RAM and IO

2) The PCPI was logically a Z80 single board computer
with it's own RAM and ROM. It used a simple protocol
to communicate its io needs to a driver on the Apple II side.

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