Date   : Thu, 01 Mar 1984 11:22:42 EST
From   : Thomas C. Minor (IBD) <tminor@brl>
Subject: Z80 Plus Board by Applied Engineering

     Does anybody out there know anything about the Z-80 Plus 
board from Applied Engineering in Dallas Texas?  I want to use it 
in an Apple IIe that now has a Grappler+ hooked up to an Epson 
FX80 printer.  My IIe also has the single Apple disk controller 
board and the extended-memory 80 column card from Apple.  Future 
plans include a modem card or a serial I/O card hooked up to an 
external modem.

     What's the catch?  This card sounds so good, but it's really 
cheap at $140.  It claims to be compatible with Microsoft CPM disks.  
Will it boot directly from the Microsoft Softcard operating 
system?  Does CPM come with the Z80 Plus?  Will it handle CPM 
3.0?  Are there any known problems with other boards, such as 
serials, modems, disk emulators, etc?  Does it really run Wordstar, 
dBase II, etc, as the ads claim?

     It just sounds too good to be true.  What's the story?  Any 
help, soon, would be appreciated.

                              -Tom Minor
                                   301-278-6176