On 2/5/2015 1:58 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
  On 2/5/15 1:19 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
  Long shot, but does anyone know of any available
disk/tape/paper
 tape/ROM images for any of the Microdata machines (800/1600) or the
 relatives (Intertechnique Multi-8/Multi-4, MAI Basic Four BB-II)?
 
 It's a bit more complicated than that. Jim Stephens will probably pipe
 in, but there
 is a microcode layer that was specific to the vendor, so even if you
 have the
 hardware, it will not run software from someone else 
This may double post, repeating sending.
Short answer is yes.  but the whole story will require quite a bit of
information about what you have and want to do.  Contact offline, as
this sort of thread could get very long.
and probably bore  people for quite a bit of it. I'll be glad to help
you figure out what you have if that is why you are asking.  if you want
to make a list for some project, I can probably help with that too.
jim