18 Jul
2002
18 Jul
'02
11:33 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason King" <jhking(a)airmail.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping a CP/M system to usability
This one is simple.
1) Get a 5.25" drive for your pc.
2) Download a copy of 22 disk.
3) Download any cp/m stuff you want
4) Use 22 disk to format a floppy as Osborne DD or Kaypro DD
5) Copy the files to the floppy
6) Stick the floppy in your 1571
Thanks for the tip, and thanks to all for many good ideas.
For the CP/M, yours sounds like the best
approach. I have a stack of 360K floppies I want
to archive anyways, so a 360K floppy drive is an
investment in junk that pays dividends anyways.
Off to Weird Stuff in search of... :)
For C64/128 stuff, I may resort to the XE1541
cable approach -- after I sort through about 100 disks
completely jammed with C64 software. :)
I did a bunch of dejanewsing (as opposed to googling
I guess) late last night and found an ftp site with a program
you can download to format, read, and write floppies in a
PeeCee drive in various CP/M formats. I'll lalso look for
22disk now.
Keep the 22-disk handy as you can transfer the other
way as well.
This is how I moved boat-load of cp/m stuff to my pc about 15 years ago
when I converted to the dark side.
I converted to the dark side about then too.
But I like Cameron Kaiser's organization field.
I want to be an 8-bit subversive. :)
-- Ross