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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- From: jcarson@us.oracle.com (Jim Carson)
- Subject: Need help with MICROSOFT SOFTCARD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.214220.10715@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Summary: Help required in getting Microsoft Softcard to work
- Sender: jcarson@oracle.com
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- Reply-To: leasgeog@zygochloa.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores CA
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:42:20 GMT
- Expires: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 08:00:00 GMT
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- I'm posting this for a friend who no longer has access to these news
- groups, so please send all reply directly to him, instead of posting them
- on the newsgroup.
- Thanks.
- -- Jim Carson
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-
- G'Day.
-
- After many years of successfully using a //c as an all-purpose home
- computer, I picked up a second-hand ][e (unenhanced) at a computer auction
- (at an amazingly cheap price, too). However, it contained a number of cards
- I am unfamiliar with (my previous contact with ][es was over six years ago,
- and they always had Apple cards in them).
-
- One card that came with the ][e was a Microsoft Softcard, which I'm
- assuming is a CP/M card (due to the Z-80 on it). I tried booting with the
- CP/AM disc that came with my //c's Z-Ram, and with a couple of CP/M utilities
- discs I've had for a while (which work fine with the Z-Ram) with no luck. I'd
- like to be able to run Turbo Pascal on the ][e, so I need to get this CP/M
- card up and running. What do the 4 dip-switches do? (The 4 dip-switches are
- currently all set in the off position.) Where can I get the appropriate software
- to make this card work? What slot should it be in (and does it care)? Any help
- would be greatly appreciated. I'm not able to access netnews, so please reply
- to the e-mail address below.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Steve Leahy
- c/- Dept. of Geography, ANU
-
- leasgeog@zygochloa.anu.edu.au
-
-