Re: Microsoft Softcard

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <01bbcd71$56e88c60$d7f30c26@tomz> "Tom Zuchowski"
<tjz@mindspring.com> writes:
>As you discovered, CP/M format is incompatible with Apple DOS and ProDOS.
>
>It's not clear from your post if this is the program you are referring to
>or not,  but Microsoft's The AppleSoft Compiler (TASC) is a DOS 3.3 program
>and should boot right up.

If it says "Microsoft BASIC Compiler" on the box, then it's not TASC--it's
an MBASIC/GBASIC compiler for Softcard CP/M.  It's been a *long* time since
I've see the TASC box, but if memory serves, I think it said "TASC" in big
letters all over the front.

Of course, if all that's available is a copied disk with the words "Microsoft
BASIC Compiler" pencilled in on the label, then Heaven only knows what it's
a copy of.  You'll have to boot the disk to find out.


Recent versions of the Apple II System Utilities can catalog CP/M disks.
This will, at least, reveal what's on the disk.

                 - Neil Parker
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