This afternoon I picked up a complete OSI Challenger 4P (model C4PMF)
with 5.25" disk driveand a stack of manuals.  It's in decent shape and
I've been going over it and cleaning it up (with a little wood polish
for the sides :)).  Power supplies seem to be working nominally so I've
fired it up, and it appears to be working correctly.
It came with half a dozen floppies, but they're in pretty sorry shape
and only one of them actually boots (well, almost boots - it errors out
after a little while into the boot process).  I've of course cleaned the
drive's heads beforehand :).  The C4PMF does not have a cassette
interface (alas) so I can't load cassette software on this thing.  And
no BASIC in ROM, so if I want to bootstrap this thing over a serial port
I'll be entering in machine code to do it :).
So I have two immediate questions:
1) Is there an archive anywhere of disk images for this machine?  I've
done a fair amount of searching and I haven't found much outside of a
few OS images included with emulators.
2) Anyone have any experience getting software onto the machine from a
"modern" PC?  Can floppies for the C4P be written on a PC (using
ImageDisk or the like)?
Thanks for any advice.  This looks like a really cool machine, and I
can't wait to get it running.
- Josh
    
    
    
 
                    
                    
                        
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