24 Aug
2012
24 Aug
'12
11:21 a.m.
On 08/23/2012 04:20 PM, geneb wrote:
Is anyone selling them?
Not that I'm aware of, but the circuit is dead simple.
Like what?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
Done. Thanks!
On 08/23/2012 09:47 AM, geneb wrote:
Sure!
Email me with your address and I'll ship one off to you. I think
Kaypros are among the best CP/M machines ever built. Compact
(for the day), reliable, quick, very nice overall. I sold and
serviced them for a few years, and I happily collect and enjoy them
now.
I've got a pair of 1200 baud internal Hayes compatible smartmodems you
might be interested in. The modem board
itself is attached to the bottom of the main logic board via
double-sided foam tape. The modem connects to the Kaypro via a ribbon
cable and a tiny daughterboard that plugs into the sockets used for the
1488/1489 line drivers on the main logic board. The removed line
drivers then plug into the top of the daughterboard. It lets you use
the serial port in kind of a pass-through fashion I think. The only
thing I found on the net about them was an old Infoworld review - they
sold for an absolutely ungodly amount.
Neat. I'm hoping to come up with a scheme to demo them here. I have
a few ideas in mind.
I'd love to find one of those add-on boards that
would allow IDE or CF
to be used - the HD in my 10 isn't going to last forever. :(
GIDE works in the Kaypros I think.
The drive in
my '10 died about two years ago. :-( I have another one,
I just have to get around to installing it, and figure out if I want to
change out the ROM in the process. Is there one that I can get an image
for that you would recommend for the '10?
I like the KayPLUS ROM. It seems to add a number of nice features to
the system.