2 Jul
2018
2 Jul
'18
5:27 p.m.
Mike Douglas has a bunch of North Star utilities that you can use to "bare
metal bootstrap" disks:
http://deramp.com/northstar.html
Unless you have a stockpile of hard-sector disks, you probably also want
his Virtual Sector Generator board:
http://deramp.com/vsg.html
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:16 PM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I was thinking someone has already done this. If no,
as you say, it is not
an impossible task.
The TSS/B is suppose to be their scientific package. It at least has BASIC
in it. I have another disk marked CP/M in the same box. I should be able to
put something together under CP/M.
It is a North Star Horizon. There seems to be some images out there so I
don't know how they are being captured.
Dwight
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Subject: Re: Looking for North star software
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, dwight via cctalk wrote:
I have a machine that I'm just now bringing
up. I have some boot
software but it is TSS/A that is the accounting multi-user package. I'd
really like the TSS/B floppies instead. I'd settle for images.
Sounds like fun!
What model Northstar?
Once you get some images, have you worked out a way to get the images onto
hard-sector disks?
AFTER you boot the machine, with some minimal programs, you can transfer
data into the machine through serial port.