Ebay madness -- Kaypro II for $515

Well one positive thing is that the Kaypro is going for more than the Osborne . It was generally acknowledged that it was a much better machine, but the aura of Adam Osborne's persona has generally made the Osborne more popular to collectors. The description mentions the Perfect Software package but it isn't included in the package. I have a pristine set of this, put out by Pied Piper. In the manuals it brags about being written in C and therefore easily transportable to other platforms. There is also some stuff in the startup procedures about the Dos prompt meaning any of the Dos systems such as CP/M, MSDOS, and CPM/86. One of the 4 disks I have is a CP/M system disk and I seem to remember that the start-up asked what system you were using. There are 2 Perfect program disks and a Workdisk. Were the program disks simply some sort of overlay that could be used if you had the relevant system disk or was it like the Commodore/Atari programs in which you had system specific disks ? ISTR that my Uniform program could read CP/M files rather than simply reformatting them like Teledisk. My Kaypros and CP/M machines are still on the unpacking list waiting for a CP/M corner to be set up so I can't explore it at this time. Also the Kaypros Achilles heel, the disk drive system, was giving me problems. Lawrence Reply to: lgwalker(a)mts.net