1 Nov
2000
1 Nov
'00
9:54 a.m.
From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
Certainly even the earliest of CP/M releases offered
more
than the North Star DOS that would've shipped with thier disk
systems? This system included DOS ver. 2 and BASIC ver. 6, Release 3
and is also copyright 1977.
Actually no. NSdos was a simpler file system but actually robust and
very fast. It lacked editor/assember/debugger but did have a good set of
diags for ram, monitor and NS* BASIC. Which for it's time was pretty
good. Also it could boot in as little as 4k of ram and run basic in 24k.
Allison
1 Nov
1 Nov
11:24 a.m.
NSdos is what I plan on doing the initial tests of the
machine with anyway, given it's smaller memory requirement. It's
manuals seem to do a decent job at describing how to config it for
various hardware. With luck, at least one of these hard-sectored
diskettes will still prove usable!
Jeff
Actually no. NSdos was a simpler file system but
actually robust and
very fast. It lacked editor/assember/debugger but did have a good set of
diags for ram, monitor and NS* BASIC. Which for it's time was pretty
good. Also it could boot in as little as 4k of ram and run basic in 24k.
Allison
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2 Nov
2 Nov
1 a.m.
Jeff,
If you need help, I have a couple of NS manuals and I have some HS disks
with NS BASIC and some other programs on them. I also have a NS MDS-A disk
controller card. I don't want to part with any of it but I could loan it out.
Joe
At 08:24 PM 11/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
NSdos is what I plan on doing the initial tests of the
machine with anyway, given it's smaller memory requirement. It's
manuals seem to do a decent job at describing how to config it for
various hardware. With luck, at least one of these hard-sectored
diskettes will still prove usable!
Jeff
Actually no. NSdos was a simpler file system but
actually robust and
very fast. It lacked editor/assember/debugger but did have a good set of
diags for ram, monitor and NS* BASIC. Which for it's time was pretty
good. Also it could boot in as little as 4k of ram and run basic in 24k.
Allison
--
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http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
12:55 a.m.
Joe,
Thanks but I have all the parts and manuals...it's just a
matter of making a small repair to the PSU for the floppy and seeing
if it all still works. I'm sure the list will likely hear about it
once I start to tinker with it again.
Jeff
Jeff,
If you need help, I have a couple of NS manuals and I have some HS disks
with NS BASIC and some other programs on them. I also have a NS MDS-A disk
controller card. I don't want to part with any of it but I could loan it out.
Joe
--
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2:43 a.m.
Jeff,
OK, good luck. Keep us posted about what you find, I need to do the same
with one of my computers.
Joe
At 09:55 AM 11/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
Joe,
Thanks but I have all the parts and manuals...it's just a
matter of making a small repair to the PSU for the floppy and seeing
if it all still works. I'm sure the list will likely hear about it
once I start to tinker with it again.
Jeff
>Jeff,
>
> If you need help, I have a couple of NS manuals and I have some HS disks
>with NS BASIC and some other programs on them. I also have a NS MDS-A disk
>controller card. I don't want to part with any of it but I could loan it
out.
Joe
--
Power Computing PowerCurve, 400mhz G3, Mac OS 9.0.4
Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems:
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
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