[HN Gopher] Nicole gets a real computer - the Microsoft Z80 Soft...
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       Nicole gets a real computer - the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard (2020)
        
       Author : homarp
       Score  : 72 points
       Date   : 2021-07-10 12:48 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nicole.express)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nicole.express)
        
       | techsupporter wrote:
       | Only one nit: The "heavy metal" Microsoft logo silkscreened onto
       | that card was introduced in early 1980, not the 70s, and hung
       | around for less than two years before being replaced by the
       | "Blibbet" logo in 1982.
       | 
       | Heavy Metal Microsoft will always be my favorite of their logos.
        
       | justanother wrote:
       | Worth mentioning, you can buy small-run, newly-manufactured Apple
       | II Z80 cards now in the 16-20MHz range (way faster than the host
       | system), some even have a TMS9918 VDP chip for compatibility with
       | MSX-1/Colecovision/SG1000 stuff.
        
       | zwieback wrote:
       | Wow, learned a lot from this post. I had a generic 80 column and
       | Z80 card and never knew about all the Microsoft involvement in
       | the Z80 stuff. I did always prefer the 6502 but being able to run
       | Turbo Pascal and WordStar on my Apple ][ was a nice addition.
        
         | code_duck wrote:
         | Same here. Captain Zilog is new to me and I haven't seen that
         | Microsoft logo in 35 years.
        
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