Kaypro System disks?

Unlike Commodore & Apple, the Kaypro uses standard diskette drives, and you should be able to make them work on a PC. Before IBM decided that users were incapable of understanding drive select jumpers, a floppy cable was a plain flat 34-conductor cable, and each drive select was picked via a header on the drive (All cable connectors were logically the same). With the PC, IBM decided to jumper all drives as drive 2 (1-4) or B: and use a twist in the cable to redirect the motor-on and select signals so that the position on the cable determined the drive selection. The upshot of this is that it's fairly easy to make any drive and cable work as the B: drive in a PC (without the twist), but you need the twisted cable to properly do an A: drive (which still has to be jumpered as drive 2). So what you need is a flat 34-pin cable, with a pin-header to connect to the mainboard, and a 34-pin edge connector for the floppy drive - jumper the drive as drive 2 (assuming you are counting 1-4) and access it with ImageDisk or whatever other software you are using as drive B: Funny - they all check out for me. You might want to flush your browsers cache, as I do move the pages containing the diskette images on a regular basis because I want people to link to the main images page so that those using the links will see the notices contained therein - in fact I moved them this morning after seeing that someone had posted a link directly to the system images directory (even though each of those pages has a note asking people NOT to link directly to the sub-pages). -- dave09 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html