CP/M on an Apple II ?

[Fred Cisin]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 22Disk does not handle them.  Internally here, we use an early
> Microsolutions Match Point card in an old PC XT with a special version
> of Uniform to handle Apple II CP/M transfers.  The Match Point also
> comes with some tools to handle Apple DOS.  The MP will not work in
> anything much faster than an XT.  I believe that there was another
> product called "Blue Lightning" or some such to handle those diskettes,
> but I've never run into one.

I had a board called "Blue Lightning", which was a Z80 board for PC.

Did the Quadlink and/or Trackstar 128 cable to Apple drives?

I did the filesystem software for "Apple Turnover" from Vertex.
I handled Apple-DOS, Pro-DOs, Apple][ CP/M, and Apple][ Pascal disks.
There are few, if any WORKING instances of that hardware.
(and it wasn't very happy about TEAC drives!)


> If you're looking for a good no-nonsense book on the innards of the IIe,
> try to find Jim Sather's book "Understanding the Apple IIe" (Quality
> Software).  Long OOP, it's one of the better references.

and "Beneath Apple DOS" has a reasonable beginner's explanation of GCR