23 May
2020
23 May
'20
8:31 p.m.
Hello all,
I started with a VIC, I then got a C-64, C-128, A1000, A2000 which
I converted into an A2000T, the A3000T and finally an A4000T. I
eventually broke down and got a 486 machine and installed Win2000 on
it. Argh! I kept my A4000T for years after I got the 486. I networked
them together with Arcnet!
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 5/23/2020 10:25 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Later it
offered the C128, which had multiple operating modes,
> including a much better BASIC and an 80-column display, but also an
> entire incompatible 2nd processor -- a Z80 so it could run CP/M. This
> being the successor model to the early-'80s home computer used by
> millions of children to play video games. They really did not want,
> need or care about _CP/M_ of all things.
On Sat, 23 May 2020, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
Again, misleading. The Z80 was not a design
goal. a 2MHz C64
compatible with 80 columns was the design goal. THank the Z80 on
some Marketing shmuck that promised CP/M compatibility on the unit
(thinking the C64 CP/M cart would work, which it can't, because the
cart is badly designed, I am told it was a bit f plagiarism from an
Apple II CP/M card, but failed to take into account the strange C64
bus cycle). Bil is around and can happily tell you the story of
simply designing the Z80 cart into the main motherboard to checkoff
the requirement and quit having to fight to get the cart to work.
I met a few early purchasers of the C128.
They were C64 users who felt that they ALSO needed a CP/M machine, and
it was handy to have both machines in one case.
It's possible that with a few more iterations, they might have been
able to get the Z80 side and the C64 side to work together better.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com