Re: Please Help to Indentify this Apple Stuff

["Dr. Wolfgang Otrebski" <wolfgang.otrebski@siemens.at>]

Thomas Krahn wrote:
<snip>
looks like You got yourself an apple ][ or ][ plus
and two clones.

> Unidentified cards:
> All three of these computers have a similar card with two wires coming off
> of it for vidio.  On #1 and 2, it is simply a card that has a standard video
> connector.  Neither of these works with my zenith monochrome monitor on the
> 40 or 80 column setting, nor do they work on a colour tv.  What are they?
- rgb cards?
> 
> Computers #1 and #2 also have an identical card with no connectors.  One is
> marked "solartron", the other marked "Z80"  They don't seem to do anything
> either.
now those seem to be "softcards" - a computer as guest/parasite inside
anothe one. They _certainly_ do nothing until you boot the CP/M disk
which will the Z80 on the softcard get going under its own OS - CP/M

There used to be a lot of CP/M software flying around from Wordstar
to all sorts of compilers. 
> 
> Unknown software:
> 
> -Something called "apple //  CP/M 44k ver.2.20B"
- see above
> -"Diversidos"
a rather fast Apple DOS 3.3 lookalike
> -"Applewriter"  - Seems to be something like a really bad wordprocessor?
- now c'mon, _really_ bad? think of the time that venerable thing was
created ...
> 
> I would appreciate any information.
You're welcome,

wolfgang
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