I had asked last week or so about a system disk for a Kaypro II
equipped with a WD hard disk controller and Rodime drive, Advent
TurboROM v3.0, an Advent .5MB RAM drive, and an Advent floppy
personality module.
Allison offered to provide a system disk made on a Kaypro 4/84 w/
turborom, but has a time-critical prior project that prevents restoring
5.25" disks to the 4/84 right now.
I had also asked on the CP/M newsgroup, and somebody there sent me a
set of teledisk images that might help. The Support and Developer SSDD
disks for a turborom'ed K-II, which are unfortunately not bootable, and
the DSDD Software Support Disk that came with the TurboROM purchased for
his own K10.
I have a Mitsubishi MF501A-352U DSDD drive (with full-height black
face-plate, no less), so I have it temporarily replacing the Kaypro's
Tandon TM100-1A.
And the K10 Software Support disk finally got me to an A0> prompt!
It looks like the turborom is fairly model- and version-agnostic.
The hard drive formatter (
K10FMT.COM) works, as do
TURBOGEN.COM and
MOVTURBO.COM, so I can now boot from the hard disk. :)
I'm not CP/M-savvy at all, but it looks like I have enough here to
make this a functional system.
Allison, I appreciate the encouragement and the info. I'd like to
stick a pair of 3.5" drives in, so if you do run across the DIP switch
settings for the floppy personality module, I'd like to have that. And
a system disk would still be interesting when your other work slows down.
Randy, Teledisk images will be forthcoming, now that I know my PeeCee
reads and writes valid images and disks.
And finally, a question - does the Kaypro support a serial console at
all? The VDT is OK, but it's tiny. :\
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