PS> The Microsoft Z-80 card was a wonderful product: it 
 PS> enabled me to learn/run for example CP/M and Turbo 
 PS> Pascal on my Apple ][. Whether this is a convincing 
 PS> argument for you, I don't know, but for sure Microsoft 
 PS> had it's own products and stands on it's own merits, 

Did you ever stop to consider the irony of buying microsoft labled hardware
to run  a Gary Kildall/Digital Research operating system on a Wozniak/Jobs
computer system? Talk about truth being stranger than fiction....
;-)


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