TurboROM Kaypro Update

[Doc Shipley]

   I had asked last week or so about a system disk for a Kaypro II 
equipped with a WD hard disk controller and Rodime drive, Advent 
TurboROM v3.0, an Advent .5MB RAM drive, and an Advent floppy 
personality module.

   Allison offered to provide a system disk made on a Kaypro 4/84 w/ 
turborom, but has a time-critical prior project that prevents restoring 
5.25" disks to the 4/84 right now.

   I had also asked on the CP/M newsgroup, and somebody there sent me a 
set of teledisk images that might help.  The Support and Developer SSDD 
disks for a turborom'ed K-II, which are unfortunately not bootable, and 
the DSDD Software Support Disk that came with the TurboROM purchased for 
his own K10.

   I have a Mitsubishi MF501A-352U DSDD drive (with full-height black 
face-plate, no less), so I have it temporarily replacing the Kaypro's 
Tandon TM100-1A.

   And the K10 Software Support disk finally got me to an A0> prompt! 
It looks like the turborom is fairly model- and version-agnostic.

   The hard drive formatter (K10FMT.COM) works, as do TURBOGEN.COM and 
MOVTURBO.COM, so I can now boot from the hard disk.  :)

   I'm not CP/M-savvy at all, but it looks like I have enough here to 
make this a functional system.

   Allison, I appreciate the encouragement and the info.  I'd like to 
stick a pair of 3.5" drives in, so if you do run across the DIP switch 
settings for the floppy personality module, I'd like to have that.  And 
a system disk would still be interesting when your other work slows down.

   Randy, Teledisk images will be forthcoming, now that I know my PeeCee 
reads and writes valid images and disks.

   And finally, a question - does the Kaypro support a serial console at 
all?  The VDT is OK, but it's tiny.  :\


	Doc