18 May
2005
18 May
'05
10:33 a.m.
From: "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:27 AM
The Kaypro '84 is different from the earlier (often refered to as '83) and
the ROMs & boot disks are not compatible between them.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
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