Re: Should I buy this? $20 ][e

[tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly)]

In <4tcdh4$3jv@pith.uoregon.edu>
nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker) writes:

>In article <4tbsn7$bbm@balsam.unca.edu> RKFAIRCLOTH@unca.edu (Rhonda K.
>Faircloth) writes:
>>[...]
>>Anybody know how the Microsoft card is supposed to function? It was in slot 7,
>>which is "normal" for a CPM card, but a PR#7 would just lock the machine up.
>>I'm guessing it's a CPM card anyway. :)
>
>All by itself, the Microsoft Softcard doesn't do anything at all.  In order
>to get any use out of it, you need a Softcard-compatible CP/M boot disk.
>
>"PR#7" doesn't work because the Softcard has no ROM--trying to activate it
>like that just sends your computer off into never-never-land.
>
>If you want to get the Softcard working, you may be able to buy a Microsoft
>CP/M boot disk in comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.  Be sure to specify
>"Microsoft CP/M 2.23"...most other versions of CP/M will *not* work.
>
If anyone needs the disk, send me E-Mail.
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