CP/M on an Apple II ?

[jim stephens]

Brent Hilpert wrote:

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>the dead guy's ancient
>Apple II/e.
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> 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!
>
>
>  
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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.

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.

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.

Also very possibly, a 2/e would 3 1/2 disks and CP/M data on them.

I think the 3 1/2" disks might be easier to recover data from, since it 
might have been hooked
up thru a "real" floppy controller, rather than apples annoying 5 1/4 
system.

The format from that controller was bizarre enough I don't know if there 
was any way
to read them on the IBM PC's disks.  Maybe something like the copy 2 
option board
might read the data and store it. does 22/disk read those?

jim