Microsoft-Paul Allen

[Eric Smith]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 01:46 Jim Manley via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> The Softcard was a Z-80 based single-board
> computer


It wasn't. It was only a processor card.

that plugged into an Apple ][ slot, equipped with its own
> 80x24 character x line black-and-white video output,


No version of the Softcard had it's own video output. It used normal Apple
video  output. If you wanted 80x24, you had to use a separate third-party
80-column card, or (later) and Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+, or IIgs.

RAM, etc.,
>

I'm not sure what you're referring to by "etc.", but the vast majority of
Softcards and their clones did not have their own RAM, and used that of the
Apple II.

The PCPI Applicard and it's clones had their own RAM. Some very late models
of the Softcard had their own RAM.