20 May
1997
20 May
'97
3:47 a.m.
Anyone ever heard of a Kaypro 4? I know what the
Kaypro is, but this
specific model? When was it released and what does it run? What type of
CPU does it have?
Gee. One I can answer. I'm not a collector like you folks, but I did use
Kaypros and other CP/M machines for about a decade. The Kaypro 4 is your
basic Kaypro transportable with a Z80 CPU (probably 4 MHz) and 64K RAM. It
has two DSDD floppies which give 390K each in Kaypro's format, which is where
the "4" comes from. At some point in 1984 or later, Kaypro switched from
using Roman to Arabic numerals. Thus the 4, as opposed to the IV, is a later
machine. Some of the later machines had a built in 300 bps modem, but if
memory serves those all had "X" suffixes, as in Kaypro 2X (which
paradoxically also had DSDD floppies, not the SSDDs of the Kaypro II).
--Dav
david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov