23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
1:20 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
Is anyone selling them?
On 08/23/2012 09:47 AM, geneb wrote:
Sure!
Email me with your address and I'll ship one off to you. The modem board
itself is attached to the bottom of the main logic board via double-sided
foam tape. The modem connects to the Kaypro via a ribbon cable and a tiny
daughterboard that plugs into the sockets used for the 1488/1489 line
drivers on the main logic board. The removed line drivers then plug into
the top of the daughterboard. It lets you use the serial port in kind of
a pass-through fashion I think. The only thing I found on the net about
them was an old Infoworld review - they sold for an absolutely ungodly
amount.
I think
Kaypros are among the best CP/M machines ever built. Compact
(for the day), reliable, quick, very nice overall. I sold and
serviced them for a few years, and I happily collect and enjoy them now.
I've got a pair of 1200 baud internal Hayes compatible smartmodems you
might be interested in. I'd love
to find one of those add-on boards that would allow IDE or CF
to be used - the HD in my 10 isn't going to last forever. :(
GIDE works in the Kaypros I think.
The drive in my '10 died about two years ago. :-(
I have another one,
I just have to get around to installing it, and figure out if I want to
change out the ROM in the process. Is there one that I can get an image
for that you would recommend for the '10?
I like the KayPLUS ROM. It seems to add a number of nice features to the
system.
g.
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