CP/M on an Apple II ?

[Allison]

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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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>><snip>
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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!
>>
>>
>>  
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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.

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