Thanks to the advice on restoring my rained-on Osborne 1 (especially from Tony Duell - thanks Tony), it is now up and running, and asking for a boot disk, which of course I haven't got. Is there any way to create a boot disk from an image, and if so where can I find such an image? I'm pretty sure my Osborne has a double-density controller (it is the blue version, and the floppy drives appear to be plugged into a daughterboard). I addition to a PC with a 360K floppy drive, I have a copy of Sybex's 22disk and a copy of a much earlier program called ALIEN.COM, both of which can read and write CP/M disks in a variety of formats. (BTW, does anyone have a version of ALIEN.COM later than 1.0Fj?) I also have a Commodore 128D, plus external 1571 and 1581 drives, and I've found a CP/M program called Jugg'ler-128, which is supposed to allow reading and writing of around 140 different CP/M formats (including, it seems, Osborne 1 single-density). So given these resources, is it possible for me to create an Osborne 1 boot disk? I understand that I can get one (for a small fee) from the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives via Don Maslin, but this involves getting the disk shipped halfway around the world, not to mention the added complication of getting a few Australian dollars converted into (even fewer) US dollars. Also, is it possible to get images of the other disks that originally came with the Osborne 1 (Wordstar et al)? Are there any licensing issues with this? I would have thought that, since the programs came with the machine originally, owning the machine would imply having a license, but I'm sure things are more complicated than that. Thanks in advance. | Scott McLauchlan |E-Mail: scott(a)cts.canberra.edu.au | | Network Services Team |Phone : +61 2 6201 5544 (Ext.5544)| | Client Services Division |Post : University of Canberra, | | University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA | ACT, 2601, AUSTRALIA. |