9 Dec
1998
9 Dec
'98
10:20 a.m.
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
Don Maslin wrote:
snip
> It may be, Russ. The 2X came toward the end of
Kaypro's 8-bit production
> and they were not exactly 'purebred'. In some cases they contained both
> modem and realtime clock which they inherited from the 4/84. In others
> those were absent as denoted by the unpopulated area on the right hand
> side of the motherboard. Still the same basic etch, just not fully
> populated. Generally, if the modem was present, the jack was identified.
What I should also have said is that if the modem is not present, the
jack is not connected to anything!
Haven't had a chance to open it but the
"other" jack appears to be a modem by
the size of the jack being an RJ11 and other specs I've found at various
places on the net. It boots quick though, especially for a 64K CP/M machine
(once I figured out that I needed to lock the floppy drive). The modem isn't
marked but as I said it seems to be. The unit is marked as a PN 81-025 on the
back and is metallic blue with a light gray cover which is also the keyboard.
It only says Kaypro on the screen print on the sides, not kaypro 2 like I've
seen on other photos.
Just things to add to this already nice machine. Books, manuals, other
software, etc. I have all the original disks to include CP/M 2.2F and S-BASIC
and C-BASIC plus some copied software. It will be the first of the year before
I can really play with it and get used to it. Other than my Commie C128D it's
been 8 or 10 yrs since I've been "into" CP/M when I had my Epson PX-8.
Hmmm! I'd have expected CP/M-2.2G and MBASIC, WORDSTAR 3.30,
CALC/DATA/REPORTSTAR, etc.
- don
Anyone
have any manuals for the actual machine they want to sell, trade
or copy?
They really did not exist. Kaypro distributed a rather generic User
Guide that dated back to the early machines, and application specific
volumes for the bundled software and operating system.
What are you looking for, I may be able to help.