iPDS questions

I'm sure glad to see the list is back up, I originally tried the following message on Tuesday. I still don't know anything more about the system. Unfortunatly it's been raining really hard around here since Tuesday, so the system is still sitting at work, and I've not really been able to examine it. Zane I'm still a little shocked. I just found a working iPDS system, complete with documentation and some software. Unfortunatly I don't think a lot of it is still readable. I did get the system to boot and pass all diagnostics. I know nothing about these beasties, from looking at the doc's it's obviously i8085 based with 64k RAM. It's got a single 5 1/4" floppy, and it's in a case slightly smaller than a Kaypro II. In the area behind the CRT is a storage area for two pods that each handle two different sizes of PROMs, these plug into a hole in the right side of the case. What on earth filesystem are the floppies? Are any kind of software images available to replace the dead floppies? Is there any software to read and write to the floppies from MS-DOS? Basically the main thing I'm interested in is the systems ability to read and write PROMs. I wouldn't mind being able to use this to support my DEC hardware :^) Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |