Chips and SBCs(Re: Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Mon Apr 16 17:10:31 2001

Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com> wrote:
> Is the Apple Z-80 coprocessor boards the so-called "CP/M boards"?

Some, like the PCPI Applicard, may have more claim to SBCness than
others; the Applicard doesn't rely on the Apple for much other than
power (unlike the Softcard-alikes which used the Apple's RAM) and I
think I remember PCPI demoing one at Applefest in Boston in 1982 by
way of having the card out on the table with a 9V battery hooked up to
it via clip-leads. Mind, I can't remember what it was actually doing
(if anything) without any I/O hooked up to it.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Mon Apr 16 2001 - 17:10:31 BST