Kaypro II system disk?

[Doc Shipley]

Allison wrote:

>>Subject: Re: Kaypro II system disk?
>>From: "Doc Shipley" <doc at mdrconsult.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:20 AM
>>
>>
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>>>  Apropos to the discussion of Don Maslin's archives, I need a bootable 
>>>disk image for a Kaypro II with the Advent TurboROM (Plu*Perfect Systems) 
>>>The Advent hard disk formatter would be a plus, but right now I'd be happy 
>>>just to boot CP/M on the thing.
>>>
>>>  FWIW, it's got one original SSDD floppy drive, a Rodime 252F hard disk 
>>>and an Advent .5MB RAM drive.  It's the v3.0 TurboROM.
>>>
>>>Doc
> 
> 
> Doc did you ever get a disk?  What drive(s) does that system have 
> installed?
> 
> I have A kaypro 4/84 I use with with Advent Turborom and Ramdisk 
> however I have mine set up with some 3.5" drives.  Mine doesn't 
> have a host controller so no hard disk.  I'd need to pull out one 
> drive to set up the right drive to make a boot disk.  I modded it
> years ago to improve functionality rather than preserve it as 
> manufactured mostly as it was already not original.  

   I would *happily* install a 3.5" floppy drive in this box, and 
possibly ship you my firstborn** to boot, if it'll get this guy up and 
running.  As you said, the box is already heavily modded, and if I 
understand correctly, the primary function of the TurboROM is to allow 
more and larger disk formats.  I have plenty of DSDD 3.5"floppies, too.

   It would be nice to have the HDD formatter, but that's not an 
immediate concern.  With the Rodime dying, I will have to find a "new" 
MFM disk for it anyway.

> REGARDING ARCHIVEGING:
> 
> I was/am trying to get away from the multitude of incompatable 5.25" 
> formats.  By installing the 3.5" drives with Turborom that allowed 
> me to have only one media (3.5") and at most three formats on that 
> media (781k CP/M, 720k CP/M, 720K dos-PC) which is my sanity set 
> that all my machines can do directly at the media level and 
> programtically using applications.


	Doc