CP/M on an Apple II ? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Oct 2005

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Subject: Re: CP/M on an Apple II ?
   From: jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu>
   Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:19:11 -0700
     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

Brent Hilpert wrote:

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 the dead guy's ancient
Apple II/e.

 So somebody either confirm my pedanticism or
show me up as the ignorant one: nobody ever bothered to rewrite CP/M (which to
my understanding was all targeted to Intel procs) for the Apple II did they?

... maybe the scriptwriting 'computing consultant' figured it would be a good
inside joke, ... maybe it's somebody on this list!

 There of course the card made for the apple ][ which booted and ran 
cpm.  I think there was (is)
an equivalent for the 2/e. 
There were a number of Z80 cards for the Apple ][ for the purpose of 
running cpm and compatable apps.

...
 actually this version is not that uncommon.  main
problem was getting 
data from other cpm's of the
time (early 80's) to this system.  If you ran it w/o 80 column support, 
the 40 column video of the apple 2 was very annoying. 
There was also an 80 column card and with a serial card there were two
simple problems to move data from other CP/M systems (UP and DOWN).

...
 I would assume there would be dbase or some spreadsheet
program he could 
be using to keep
data.  Also the 5 1/4 disks would be much better than the original cpm 
8" for a traveler. 
Dbase was available for Apple as both native (6502) and CP/M (8080/z80)
along with multiplan.

Allison