Kaypro II

On 08/23/2012 02:10 PM, Eric Smith wrote: Advent Turborom, was an improved BOOT/bios with extensions for more and different drives. The advent personality board was an option that allowed the Tubrorom code to handle different drives than stock Kaypro had and allowed for up to 4. Standard drives were 2x 5.25" two side 40track and held about 360KB. Mine has 80 track 2side (fd55gfr) 5.25" for about 780K per drive. I went further to have one stock drive, and one fd55GFR plus added a 3.5" 80track (same interface as 5,25" 80track) one on the panel and one internal (default boot drive and utilities). By doing that It allowed me more general mass storage something very handy when using CP/M with lots of tools. That gave me 3x 780K +360K plus the 1MB ramdisk made the system very handy and useful. (using the ram disk for complies or assembles was way faster than floppy). Handyman was a calc, calender, mini editor, and a card file database that could be brought up at any time even during a CP/M utility or ap like multiplan or other editor. People liked the Keypro as it was CP/M giving access to a huge pool of free and inexpensive software and tools plus it was easily added onto. Add on items included hard disks, and other very desirable system hardware. Allison.