16 Jul
2006
16 Jul
'06
4:47 p.m.
On Sunday 16 July 2006 07:33 pm, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
So, I picked up some new toys at "The Event"
yesterday, and I was
wondering...
Does anyone happen to have copies of CP/M (or any other OS) for Televideo's
TS-801? These seem to have a pair of 5.25" DSDD 48tpi drives, from what
little information I've seen from google. I picked up a pair of TS-801's
and a TS-806C (not to be confused with a TS-806), which is a "shared tape
drive" box.
What's the difference between a TS-806 and a TS-806C, not to be confused
with?
I have a TS-816 in storage. A bit more than a "shared tape drive", it's
got
a tape drive that they say handles up to 14MB (dunno why some other drives
can seemingly stuff so much more into the same form factor tapes) and also a
big old 8" HD, belt-driven yet.
A Z80, and I think 128K of ram, which is probably what you also have in that
other unit as well. It's been a long time since I've run into any of that
stuff, and while I have the 816 and one of the cables to connect a
"workstation" to it, pretty long at that, I never did get any 801s or
similar. Is the 801 the one where the floppy drives are vertical and to one
side of the display monitor?
I haven't found much info there that I can't
figure out from a quick look
at the machine, though..
Thanks.
Pat (Wishing he could just ask Don for the disks...)
Don sent me a belt to put on that 8" HD, which I still have somewhere, in
the box he sent it in, I never did get around to putting it on there.
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