Date   : Thu, 01 Mar 1984 1447-:00PST
From   : Chris <Pace@USC-ECLC.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Z80 Plus Board by Applied Engineering

       I can't talk to the question you posed directly, however I
just had a bout with a the ALS Z-card that may be worth considering.
The Z-card ($129) was purchased mail-order so that I could run wordstar
and do some work for downline loading to another z-80 computer.
I also had Microsoft's Ramcard.
       To make a long story short, the z-card came with cpm and several
utilities.  Most of the utilities didnt bomb, but didnt work either.
The 60K system generation utility failed to produce a bootable CPM
system.  After a long delay and several long distance phone calls to the
mail-order firm, ALS finally got back to us saying that there was a 
"timing problem between the z-card and microsoft's ramcard."  After
two iterations of this, I gave up and got microsoft's cpm and card
which was up and running a 60k system in 15 minutes.
       Cheapness doesnt always pay off - either in time or money.

               Chris.