there certainly are those that can help on this list,
but I'm not amongst them. I can answer your question
though - I have definitely seen a V9K in operational
mode. Moreover...muahahahahaha...I've seen a Vicki
work too. That be the portable version. Rarer then
shark's nipples. But no I never managed to boot any of
these :( either. Glory days are coming though.
--- JP Hindin <jplist2007 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
A very generous chap here (thanks Steve) sent me a
bunch of media for my
Victor 9000, as I've had no bootable software for
it. Most of the new
disks are application programmes, but there's one
labelled:
SYSGEN 5/20/82, CP/M 86 2.2, BACKUP
Which I figure should be on the money (although,
admittedly, I've never
used CP/M before, so I may have it wrong).
The Victor has a pair of Tandon TM100-3's, which as
far as I can find
online are SS/DD - and the diskettes I have are also
labelled SS/DD, so
that lines up.
I have read (in the Vector Tech Ref, thanks
BitSavers) that the machine
will boot from either diskette drive, which is good
since the drive latch
mechanism on my left-hand drive is damaged and won't
allow the drive to
engage.
Anyways. I stick in the CP/M floppy and hit the
switch. The VDU warms up
and, after it checks out the disk drive with the
floppy in it, I get a
cute little floppy disk logo in the bottom-right
hand corner of the screen
and next to it is "x 01", as in, "disks times one".
From there, nothing.
I've tapped all the keys on the keyboard without any
apparent change. If I
remove the floppy the disk with 'x 01' disappears
and I get a blinking
floppy logo, so it certainly appears functional in
that respect.
The Tech Ref manual on BitSavers tells me how to
low-level access graphics
and helpful things like that - but I need the
"Victor9000 for Dummies"
guide to tell me what in the heck I'm even looking
at.
Can anyone help?
Thanks much!
- JP
Iowa
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