Date   : Thu, 02 Sep 1982 20:04:00 edt
From   : Walters.SoftArts@Mit-Multics
Subject: Re: Applicard

The Applicard is made by PCPI, whose address is:

Personal Computer Products, Inc.
16776 Bernardo Center Drive
San Diego, CA 92128

I spoke with the developers for a little while at a recent
convention. The card is designed to use its own 64k memory and
only communicates with the Apple to do I/O. This allows the CPU
to run at a full 6 MHz, since it is not contending with the
Apple display bus. In fact, they claimed, multiple cards could
be installed in the Apple and run independently. Although
communication with the Apple was only (I think) 40k bytes/sec.,
they did not believe this resulted in any effective loss of
disk access speed on the programs they had tried.

Although I saw the card, I did not see it in operation. I am
also not sure what software is being provided with the card.