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Re: Microsoft Z-80 Card on Apple II+

Quadrajet1 wrote:

<< > The AE card is more likely to work, because it was more of a computer


of its own, and was less tightly integrated with the Apple II.
I think you may be confusing it with the Applicard/Starcard. The AE Z80+ board was almost exact knockoff of the Microsoft Softcard. 
 >>

  The reason I thought the AE card may work is it was made a lot later than the
MS card.  Plus if I recall they made 2 versions, one with a red LED and one
with a green LED.  I think one was 4 Mhz, the other was 6?
No. They were all MS knockoffs and ran at an effective 2Mhz. You may be getting thrown by the speed rating of the CPU chip, which has nothing to do with how it actually operates in circuit. 



  I remember the Applicard, and others.  They had their own 64K of RAM attached
to the card.  But there again, it predated the IIgs as well, I am sure.
Yes, it did. However it did not do any fancy tricks with the bus and works fine even on accelerated IIgs systems. 

Steve