(Catching up on my email after the holidays)
Programs like Media Master can read and write Kaypro disks on a PC, but in order for a
disk to be readable, it must be formatted on the PC (same goes for a Zorba disk).
The following is the explanation from the Media Master Read.Me file:
<quote>Both the Kaypro 2x,4,10 (DSDD) and Zorba 40 trk (DSDD) formats have a
peculiarity that prevents you from using a disk that is created on
the "native" computer.? In both cases, the only way to transfer files
is to first format a transfer disk in the Kaypro or Zorba format using
MEDIA MASTER and your computer.? Then use the Kaypro or Zorba computer
to transfer files from the "native" disks to the disk you created with
MEDIA MASTER.? Then using MEDIA MASTER, you can transfer the files to
any format you wish.
Another way of viewing this problem is that disks created on the
Kaypro 2x, 4, or 10 can only be used on the Kaypro 2x, 4, or 10, but
a Kaypro 2x, 4, or 10 disk created on your computer with MEDIA MASTER
can be used on both your computer and the Kaypro computer.</quote>
BTW, I have copies (for MS-DOS) of Media Master and Convert (1984, Selfware, Inc., Charles
W Woodford). Contact me off-list.
Bob
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:20:37 -0700
From: "Chuck Guzis" < cclist at
sydex.com >
Subject: RE: Kaypro System disks?
On 2 Jul 2009 at 22:19, David Griffith wrote:
Here's a point I was never quite clear on...?
Are disks readable
across different machines?? For instance, take a disk that was
formatted and written on using a Kaypro 10.? Is that disk readable on
a Kaypro IV or Kaypro 4?? How about reading a single-sided Kaypro II
disk on one of the double-sider machines?
Natively, it was highly ROM-dependent as others have noted.? However,
I seem to remember a version of one of the interchange programs
(Media Master?) for the Kaypro that could be used to read a wide
range of formats.? If you had a 96 tpi drive, the possibilities were
even greater.
Fred might remember...
--Chuck