Re: modern Applicard?

[wood@futility.com]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:23:44 -0800 (PST), a2fan@hotmail.com wrote:

>> >> FWIW, the CTC was optional--I've never seen a card with it installed.
>> >> That suggests that very little software actually used it.
>>
>> > s/very little/no/
>>
>> Good. Less trouble making a clone. This is a very useful data point.
>
>Count me in as an interested party... because all this CP/M talk has
>gotten me curious.
>
>I'd recommend keeping the CTC if possible -- just because little to
>nothing was written for it back whenever is moot. The people who are
>interested in it TODAY are much more likely to want to tinker with it.
>Their motivations are completely different and obviously not
>commercially oriented. And how many times have we griped about a card,
>whose designers or manufacterer cut corners, features. "If they'd have
>only done this or used that... it would have been so much better."
>
>Don't make a JACPMC - just another CP/M card - make something awesome.
Seconded. I have an MS Z-80, I can get a clone for $25. To make me
want it, to make me open the IIe and replace the current card means
that it must do something new. If it is JACPPMC, count me out. If it
is something new, then I'm in. If it has its own CF (hard disk)
storage even better, if it will use my current Microdrive CF, great.