Frank:
That's the baby...
I had a hell of a time finding a machine that would go farther than spin
the disks.
I think it was an original PC that first booted. It DEFINITELY didn't
like anything but true blue.
Don't know why I kept the discs so long ('cept I paid for 'em) but I
wanted the manuals as refs. I'm happy now, though...
-Mike
Frank McConnell wrote:
Mike Allison <mallison(a)konnections.com> wrote:
This is the UCSD P System which means that there
is no way to copy it to
the HD as this _IS_ the operating system.
This is the one in the sort of peach-colored IBM binders with
slipcases, right? I had a copy of that a few years back (gave it to
an interested friend back east). While I had it I made some
observations. The manuals didn't mention hard^H^H^H^Hfixed disks at
all. They also seemed to indicate that diskettes held about 160KB
(i.e. no knowledge of double-sided disks). And it didn't want to boot
on anything I had access to except the Panasonic Business Partner in
the QA lab at work -- I'm not sure whether it objected to 80x86s for
x>=2, clock speeds > 4.77 MHz, or what.
-Frank McConnell