On Sunday 12 October 2008 20:03, feldman.r at comcast.net wrote: I can't recall now which one it was, but I had one of those, found on some random floppy, and what I found was that it did not deal at all well with the fact that I had a HD drive in the box. I guess it was looking for a "360K" in there, or something. I wouldn't mind getting a hold of those at some point, though I'm really doing very little with dos these days, and don't anticipate doing much except perhaps for a machine controller box or two at some point later on. The one place where I could use such right now is this box of floppies I found that a kind gentleman in Australia had sent to me. These are in Kaypro SS format, which was what I could deal with at the time, my only machine when he sent them being my Osborne Executive. I have some vague recollections of looking at the contents and finding alternate ROM listings (and maybe BIOS stuff?) for the Bigboard II. One thing that stands out in my memory was there being a ROM choice in there that'd set the ROM up for different sweep speeds, the default being 18.something KHz which my monitors back then sure didn't seem to care for much. I suppose I could dig out the one Kaypro machine I have handy, and hope that there's a boot disk in it, to read them, or maybe dig out my Exec, which I'm pretty sure has at least some floppies with it though I don't recall if MM is in there or not, and then feed them over to something else via serial cable... Too bad I don't have a linux box handy with a 5.25" drive in it. I've had idle thoughts of making a "media server" with four floppy drives of various types in it, perhaps a tape drive or two, etc. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to it... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin