Kaypro II system disk?

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:27 AM


>>From: "Doc Shipley" <doc at mdrconsult.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:20 AM
>>
>>
>>>   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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Allison

The Kaypro '84 is different from the earlier (often refered to as '83) and 
the ROMs & boot disks are not compatible between them.


Randy
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