CP/.M Floppy Bood Diskette needed... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Nov 2012

a few pcs or pseudo pcs did load there Bios from disk.
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 On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 7:45 AM PDT allison wrote:

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 You need the 801 boot image.

Reason is the HDD drive is embedded in the bios which is part of the 
initial load image.

CP/M did the BIOS or hardware abstraction from the base OS but the BIOS 
on most CP/M
was a loaded image and very specific to the system in use. In that 
respect it was very
unlike PCs where the BIOS was in Eprom/rom

Allison

On 11/02/2012 10:52 PM, Lyle Bickley wrote:
  I recently acquired a Televideo TS-801. It's
a typical Z80 CP/M system.
 I've have it restored to where it is trying to boot. It "says" that it
 is in the process of "IPLing" the system and the left drive is selected.

 I couldn't find any TS-801 boot images, but based on CC archives, I saw
 that Televideo TS-802 floppy images will work as well.

 I downloaded TS-802(H) images from Dave Dunfield's site - but they
 expect a HDD - and fail booting...

 Does someone have an CP/M boot image for the floppy based TS-801 or
 TS-802? If so, I'd appreciate a copy off list or link to same on or off
 list.

 Thanks!

 Lyle 