19 Mar
1997
19 Mar
'97
5:58 p.m.
George,
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, George Lin wrote:
I picked up a very nice Osborne 1 from a local thrift
store yesterday. The
system powers up. Everything looks good. However, I don't have the boot
disk. I tried the CP/M boot disk from my Kaypro II. No good. If I
remember correctly, the disk drives on old CP/M machines are not compatible
with each other even though the binaries are. It looks like that I need an
Osborne formatted CP/M boot disk. Does anyone know where I can get one?
Also, it would be nice to get a CP/M communication software on an Osborne
formatted disk so that I can start transferring other CP/M software to it.
Contact Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com>om>. He is the keeper of the Dina-SIG
System Disk Archive. He is a great source of system disks for CP/M
machines. He usually charges $3 for the first disk and $1-2 for each
additional disk.
I got some system disks for and O1 from him early this year. He is and
excellent resource and a righteous dude. Without him and the system
disk archive many otherwise working machines would have ended up in
the landfill.
--pec
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