jeffs@wjvax.UUCP (Jeffery Siou) (05/02/87)
I presently own a Radio Shack Model 4. I'm looking for CP/M for it. Is anyone familiar with Motezuma Micro's CP/M that sells for $169. Is it the best available? Is there any other CP/M for my model 4. I was told to stay away from Radio Shack's version of CP/M(I think it's called CP/M Plus). Comments? Also what about this CP/M called Rose's CP/M that sells for $69. Is the Montezuma Micro version worth the extra $100. Advice and comments greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
rhealey@ub.D.UMN.EDU (Rob Healey) (05/04/87)
In article <889@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP> jeffs@wjvax.UUCP (Jeffery Siou) writes: >I presently own a Radio Shack Model 4. I'm looking for CP/M for it. >Is anyone familiar with Motezuma Micro's CP/M that sells for $169. Is it the >best available? Is there any other CP/M for my model 4. I was told to stay >away from Radio Shack's version of CP/M(I think it's called CP/M Plus). >Comments? Also what about this CP/M called Rose's CP/M that sells for $69. >Is the Montezuma Micro version worth the extra $100. Advice and comments >greatly appreciated. > I own a Model 4, gate array version i.e. newest, with 2 DS DD 40 track drives. I have Monte's CP/M and it IS THE CP/M for model 4's BAR NONE. Rose's CP/M is a very old, very striped down, version of Monte's CP/M, the extra $100.00 you pay for Monte's current version gives you some excellent utilitys plus the ability to automatically use the top 64K in a 128K machine as a RAM disk. I felt the $169.00 is worth it because the current version allows alot of flexibility with disk drives and peripherals. You would be a fool to even contemplate Tandy's CP/M, it is a piece of SH*T plain and simple. Your choice is whether you want a newer or VERY older version of Monte's CP/M. I think the $100 bucks you spend on the newest version would save you alot of grief down the road. By the way, simtel20 has a huge PD library, almost 98% of the CP/M programs I've grabbed off of simtel20 have worked first shot on the Model 4 using Monte's CP/M, version 2.31. Hope this helps, -Rob Healey rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu