lesh@BRL.ARPA (Steve Lesh, ISC | howard) (04/14/87)
If anyone owning a gs is thinking about purchasing a z80+ from Applied Engineering, I would recommend waiting. I purchased a z80+ a week ago that had a little "runs on GS" sticker on the front of the box. When I tried to install the operating system con- figuring it to use a 3.5 Unidisk as the boot device, it would not run. The user's manuals contained no instructions which assist GS owners in installing CP/M. After a little fiddling, I discovered that you had to set the system speed to normal through the control panel before the operating system would boot from a 3.5 through the smart port. The resident system commands seemed to work ok after it booted but I could not get programs to load from disk. A call to Applied Engineering revealed that they have a new revision to the operating system ( 5.2?) which is supposed to correct the problems with the z80+ on the GS. They still didn't indicate that they had any plans to revise the operators manuals. (there were no addendums in the box either). I'll keep you posted if you'll keep me posted.