14 Oct
2000
14 Oct
'00
5:21 a.m.
At 11:01 AM 10/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
-----Original Message-----
That should be EASY to do by using the ROM monitor. You shouldn't even
need OS software to do it. The monitor command R0 reads from the paper tape
port. I imagine that you could use another device to input data there
instead of the PT reader. You could then use the monitor commands to write
to a disk and you could concievably create your own OS disk that way. If
nothing else you can use the monitor to store anything as a block of data
on a disk and then retrieve and run it later using the monitor.
Joe
> I was hoping that I could get some useful OS
running, CPM would be
great; I
> have several CPM machines already, so
it's not totally foreign to me.
Would
> I need a different CPU card, or other
hardware to run CP/M? For that
The bios would have to know how to handle the disk as it does single
denisty
and a M^2FM double density that is unique to Intel boxen. The single
density
mode will however run standard CPM (BIOS is in the alteration guide) and
usually on standard distrubtion 8" SSSD.
code should work on your machine, as I recall. The
main issue
is that you'll most likely have to transfer things through a
serial port to the MDS. It's a pain but it can be done.
You can use ISIS to help or hand push it some of it.
Allison