23 Apr
2003
23 Apr
'03
1:11 p.m.
When I got several Kaypro II etc. machines several years ago at the
thrift store, I also found a bunch of related floppy disks. Several of
them are apparently copies of disks from Micro Cornucopia at Bend,
Oregon (a mid 80s magazine?). They appear to have lots of useful
software, I think public domain...assemblers, utilities, etc.
I finally got round to getting 22disk running on an XT, and I've been
reading these old floppies, and copying the contents to the hard drive
on my main computer. No read errors yet, and I've done a dozen!
amazing....
Is there any interest in this stuff, such as on a CP/M archive server
somewhere? I should be able to zip it up and email or ftp it somewhere.
I don't have room on my home page (url below).
Here's a sample of what's in them, from part of the .doc file for one of
the disks:
=============================================
KAYPRO USER'S DISK #10-------Assembly Language Disk
Micro Cornucopia
PO BOX 223
Bend OR 97709
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CROWECPM.COM
CROWECPM.DOC
CROWECPM.Z80
This program is for all of you that wanted a Z80 assembler without spending
hundreds of dollars for it. We modified the CROWE assembler so that it
would work under any CP/M system. CROWECPM accepts standard Zilog mnemonics
and creates a .HEX and .PRN files. The .HEX file is in Intel format and can
be used to create a .COM file with the CP/M LOAD.COM. A symbol table is
listed at the end of the .PRN file. It is a good assembler and the source
code is included if any one would like to make it even better.
See CROWECPM.DOC for information on using the CROWECPM assembler.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
LASM.COM
LASM.DOC
This is another assembler. It is a rewrite of the standard CP/M ASM
assembler. The difference is that this version can link assembly language
programs together at assembly time. This version also runs faster the
ASM.COM. This could be a the begininning of a linker for our Small C+.
See LASM.DOC for details.
=======================================================
Neat stuff, obviously.
--
Jim
Visit the Selectric Typewriter Museum!
http://www.mindspring.com/~jforbes2
23 Apr
23 Apr
2:15 p.m.
J Forbes wrote:
...
I finally got round to getting 22disk running on an
XT, and I've been
reading these old floppies, and copying the contents to the hard drive
on my main computer. No read errors yet, and I've done a dozen!
amazing....
Almost as amazing as my experience reading 30 year old DECtapes, over 25
tapes read and only a few retries, no read errors.
Is there any interest in this stuff, such as on a CP/M
archive server
somewhere? I should be able to zip it up and email or ftp it somewhere.
I don't have room on my home page (url below).
Neat stuff indeed, if no one else volounteers I can host them in my
webspace....
-- hbp
2:30 p.m.
J Forbes wrote:
When I got several Kaypro II etc. machines several
years ago at the
thrift store, I also found a bunch of related floppy disks. Several
of them are apparently copies of disks from Micro Cornucopia at Bend,
Oregon (a mid 80s magazine?). They appear to have lots of useful
software, I think public domain...assemblers, utilities, etc.
I finally got round to getting 22disk running on an XT, and I've been
reading these old floppies, and copying the contents to the hard drive
on my main computer. No read errors yet, and I've done a dozen!
amazing....
Is there any interest in this stuff, such as on a CP/M archive server
somewhere? I should be able to zip it up and email or ftp it
somewhere. I don't have room on my home page (url below).
Grab an account at one of the free webservers (I use tripod) and slap a
quick webpage up. Free and it works for me!
Jim
2:41 p.m.
J Forbes wrote:
When I got several Kaypro II etc. machines several
years ago at the
thrift store, I also found a bunch of related floppy disks. Several
of them are apparently copies of disks from Micro Cornucopia at Bend,
Oregon (a mid 80s magazine?). They appear to have lots of useful
software, I think public domain...assemblers, utilities, etc.
Micro Cornucopia was a Kaypro oriented magazine, which also had some
MS-DOS stuff in later years. They offered several items for sale for
upgrading
Kaypro's, such as a 4Mhz modification, and schematics of the system.
I finally got round to getting 22disk running on an XT, and I've been
reading these old floppies, and copying the contents to the hard drive
on my main computer. No read errors yet, and I've done a dozen!
amazing....
Is there any interest in this stuff, such as on a CP/M archive server
somewhere? I should be able to zip it up and email or ftp it
somewhere. I don't have room on my home page (url below).
I thought I had some of these Kaypro Disks, but can only see a Pro-8
utility disk
at the moment. I wouldn't mind getting copies of the Kaypro disks, but
don't have
any place to host them.
These disks usually were programs without source code.
Micro Cornucopia also had several MS-DOS disks available, some of
which I have. These are (rough names only)
ms-2 CheapAssem
ms-3 Adventure
ms-8 NeatGames
ms-13 EditorAndFormatter
ms-21 SmallCAndCWindows
ms-22 DynamiteUtilities
ms-23 Express
ms-24 SuperiorGames
ms-27 SystemPrimer
ms-28 FiveNewAdventures
ms-32 HackAndBeast
ms-34 ColorGames
ms-36 GeneralUtilities
ms-37 DiskUtilities
ms-40 MoreUtilities
ms-44 Hercules
ms-47 PCStyle
5:17 p.m.
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, J Forbes wrote:
When I got several Kaypro II etc. machines several
years ago at the
thrift store, I also found a bunch of related floppy disks. Several of
them are apparently copies of disks from Micro Cornucopia at Bend,
Oregon (a mid 80s magazine?). They appear to have lots of useful
software, I think public domain...assemblers, utilities, etc.
I finally got round to getting 22disk running on an XT, and I've been
reading these old floppies, and copying the contents to the hard drive
on my main computer. No read errors yet, and I've done a dozen!
amazing....
Is there any interest in this stuff, such as on a CP/M archive server
somewhere? I should be able to zip it up and email or ftp it somewhere.
I would suggest contacting Gaby and asking if she would like to
host it on her site.
- don
I don't have room on my home page (url below).
Here's a sample of what's in them, from part of the .doc file for one of
the disks:
=============================================
KAYPRO USER'S DISK #10-------Assembly Language Disk
Micro Cornucopia
PO BOX 223
Bend OR 97709
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CROWECPM.COM
CROWECPM.DOC
CROWECPM.Z80
This program is for all of you that wanted a Z80 assembler without spending
hundreds of dollars for it. We modified the CROWE assembler so that it
would work under any CP/M system. CROWECPM accepts standard Zilog mnemonics
and creates a .HEX and .PRN files. The .HEX file is in Intel format and can
be used to create a .COM file with the CP/M LOAD.COM. A symbol table is
listed at the end of the .PRN file. It is a good assembler and the source
code is included if any one would like to make it even better.
See CROWECPM.DOC for information on using the CROWECPM assembler.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
LASM.COM
LASM.DOC
This is another assembler. It is a rewrite of the standard CP/M ASM
assembler. The difference is that this version can link assembly language
programs together at assembly time. This version also runs faster the
ASM.COM. This could be a the begininning of a linker for our Small C+.
See LASM.DOC for details.
=======================================================
Neat stuff, obviously.
--
Jim
Visit the Selectric Typewriter Museum!
http://www.mindspring.com/~jforbes2
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