Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:08:26 -0800 (PST) From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: NEC APC boot disks CP/M-86 and DOS To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <20060316000826.89285.qmail at web61024.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 if you get the little asterisk on yer screen there, you're probably alright. I recently pulled the floppy drives out of one of my APCs aiming to plug them into a pc using Dave Dunfield's instructions (those NEC drives use a 50pin plug, so I'm going to have to either etch an adapter board or do something else freaky). Once there, I presumably could not only image the disks I do have (condition unknown) - Dos, DBase II, and Autocad I think - but also create boot disks from Dave's or my images. I don't put alot of stock in old floppies, but when the golden day comes, I could mail you a disk or two, don't know if they'd work or not, but that's not going to be this week. Probably not next or the week after either. The other option is to set up a modern pc with a hd 1.2meg 5 1/4" drive, burn images to that, then plug that into your APC. Worth a try. --- Dave Dunfield <dave06a at dunfield.com> wrote: > Anybody out there willing to snail mail me a > couple of 8" boot disks for the > original APC? I've got 2 of these sitting around > with no software, wanted to > test them out. If so please contact me off-list. > > I have images of MS-DOS, CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal > boot disks for the > APC posted to my site (ImageDisk format). > > -- > dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield > dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & > tools: www.dunfield.com > com Collector of vintage computing > equipment: > > http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html