23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
5:46 a.m.
Alspa gets my vote. I have three of them. Besides being nearly the
size of a case with two 1/2 high 8" floppies and the floppies being the
double sided 2mb Mitsubishi drives, they have a connector which allows
them to use Corvus drives for a hard drive.
Just plug in 5 or 10mb and you are good to go.
There is a connector to which you have to add a switch to select the
corvus for booting, or a jumper if you don't want to dual boot between
floppy and hard drive.
A very early problem which the IBM solved with the bios in software, but
had only a hardware solution at the time of the Alspa.
The otrona isn't bad either.
Jim
On 8/22/2012 9:49 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I think
Kaypros are among the best CP/M machines ever built.
I like the Kaypros fine, but I
like the Commodore 128 better for CP/M. It
may be slow, but it's a nice implementation.
It *is* odd that CP/M induces relatively little nostalgia and a whole lot
of nausea. You'd think that it would have its rabid partisans.