Linux question

I disagree with the last comment. I am not 'disinterested'. I didn't actualy provide the answer to the linux question because others had got there before me and I had nothing to add. But I easily could have given the answere. Darn it, I've got cat running on this machine (obviosuly), I can do a 'man cat' to see if there's anything useful, and so on. No, going back to that Keypro 10. I don't have one. I don't have a technical or service manual (or a schemaitc) for it. Coming from a TRS-80 background I have little experience of CP/M machines (I always felt LDOS was a superior OS), I don't have a single CP/M luggable. I have no experience at all of the 3rd party ROMs that I believe were mentioned in the original question. I can't help the OP. It doesn't mean I'm not interested -- I am. But the only contribution I could make would be 'Sorry, I don't know' and that would be a total waste of bandwidth. For tthe same reason I've not contributed much to the clean bnx thread. I am very interested in this, since one day I will have to do internal repairs on winchester type hard drives. But I know very little about it so far. So I am reading this thread with great interest, sometime I will put some of the ideas -- and some of my ideas, surely -- into practice, and report back as to how I got on. But don't hold your breath waiting for me to do this. Conversely, if somebody posts about a machine I do know a bit about, and if nobody else has essentially said the same things, I do reply. Consider the answers I gave on the 'HP calculators' thread. I don't know how many other people here have a 9820, but I did feel I could provide some useful information here. And FWIW, I cna go on a lot more about that machine's hardware, right down to gate level if need be... -tony