29 Oct
2016
29 Oct
'16
6:41 p.m.
I have uploaded a set of disk images from My Compupro system with an 8085
and 8086 card, plus regular z80. The thread starts a number of years ago,
but today I just updated, at the bottom, to include images of the disks I
have for the system.
Some interesting concurrent CPM and DOS stuff, not sure if this is really
MS DOS 1.25 or not, never got it to work on my system. I'd love to see
someone else make it work.
Thread:
http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=265
Just get the IMD images:
http://vintagecomputer.net/disk_images/COMPUPRO/
As always, thanks Dave Dunfield, please use the images with the proper
licenses, etc.
Bill
29 Oct
29 Oct
7:11 p.m.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2016, william degnan wrote:
Some interesting concurrent CPM and DOS stuff, not
sure if this is really
MS DOS 1.25 or not, never got it to work on my system. I'd love to see
someone else make it work.
Can't help with that right now. Sorry.
Simplest test for MS-DOS 1.25 would the the dates of the files,
particularly IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS. IIRC, 1.25 would be in 1982, maybe
June.
7:26 p.m.
On 10/29/2016 07:11 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Can't help with that right now. Sorry. Simplest
test for MS-DOS
1.25 would the the dates of the files, particularly IO.SYS and
MSDOS.SYS. IIRC, 1.25 would be in 1982, maybe June.
1.25 was licensed for OEM customization for quite some time, so dates
could well be later, depending on the OEM.
--Chuck
8:01 p.m.
On Oct 29, 2016 10:27 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 10/29/2016 07:11 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Not looking for help, just offering the files to whomever wants to attempt
them. A disclaimer that these are as-is, good luck.
B
Can't help with that right now. Sorry.
Simplest test for MS-DOS
1.25 would the the dates of the files, particularly IO.SYS and
MSDOS.SYS. IIRC, 1.25 would be in 1982, maybe June.
1.25 was licensed for OEM customization for quite some time, so dates
could well be later, depending on the OEM.
--Chuck
9:06 p.m.
> Simplest test for MS-DOS 1.25 would the the dates
of the files,
> particularly IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS. IIRC, 1.25 would be in 1982, maybe
> June.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
1.25 was licensed for OEM customization for quite some
time, so dates
could well be later, depending on the OEM.
Very true.
When was the earliest that a 1.25 was released to OEMs?
On the other end, 2.00 came out somewhere around march or April 1983.
If the dates are in the right range, then there are other clues, such as
matching file sizes.
Starting with 2.00? there was a version number buried in the code, and the
VER command would print some text, and then calculate what to display for
the numbers (major version, period, minor version as a 2 digit decimal
number.0 (19h gave .25)
But, if 1.25 didn't have that, then somewhere in COMMAND.COM, there might
be text saying "MS-DOS 1.25", instead of the later ""MS-DOS ", to
be
followed by calculated values.
Did 1.25 have ANSI.SYS and CONFIG.SYS?
For somebody who remembers the detaails of the transition, many of the
text messages in COMMAND.COM might be recognizable.
30 Oct
30 Oct
12:03 a.m.
On 10/29/2016 09:06 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Starting with 2.00? there was a version number buried
in the code,
and the VER command would print some text, and then calculate what
to display for the numbers (major version, period, minor version as a
2 digit decimal number.0 (19h gave .25) But, if 1.25 didn't have
that, then somewhere in COMMAND.COM, there might be text saying
"MS-DOS 1.25", instead of the later ""MS-DOS ", to be followed
by
calculated values. Did 1.25 have ANSI.SYS and CONFIG.SYS?
For somebody who remembers the detaails of the transition, many of
the text messages in COMMAND.COM might be recognizable.
My recollection of 1.25 was that it had foreign language (at lead
code-page type support) where 1.1 did not. It lasted longer than it
should have.
--Chuck
29 Oct
29 Oct
10:18 p.m.
On Oct 29, 2016, at 18:41, william degnan
<billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
I have uploaded a set of disk images from My Compupro system with an 8085
and 8086 card, plus regular z80.
Thanks for sharing! Those images will probably be quite helpful to many folks trying to
resurrect vintage Compupro hardware, myself included.
One of the links appears to be bad: The filename is "MPM2.1ED", but clicking it
just leads to the site index page.
I hope you won't hate me for a mild (?) threadjack: I'm looking for either version
2.2R or version 2.2S of the Compupro CPM-80 Master Distribution Disk. I've been told
by an experienced Compupro guy that those are the versions I'll want to operate the
S-100 system I'm building in interrupt mode rather than polled I/O mode under CP/M-80.
All of the images I've found online so far are for earlier versions of Compupro
CP/M-80, which I'm told will work in polled mode but lack the interrupt mode support.
But what do I know? I'm new to this stuff!
The same fellow tells me that Mr. Godbout has never authorized online copying of the
Compupro software as some other out-of-print computer manufacturers have, and has been
known to express strong disagreement with the practice. To which I naturally reply that I
would be quite happy to buy a new copy of Compupro CP/M-80 2.2R/2.2S at full retail list
price from the legitimate rights holder rather than downloading an image.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
10:37 p.m.
On Oct 30, 2016 1:18 AM, "Mark J. Blair" <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
folks
trying to resurrect vintage Compupro hardware, myself included.
> On Oct 29, 2016, at 18:41, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have uploaded a set of disk images from My Compupro system with an
8085
and 8086 card,
plus regular z80.
Thanks for sharing! Those images will probably be quite helpful to many
One of the links appears to be bad: The filename is "MPM2.1ED", but
clicking it just leads to the site index page.
I hope you won't hate me for a mild (?) threadjack: I'm looking for
either
version 2.2R or version 2.2S of the Compupro CPM-80 Master
Distribution Disk. I've been told by an experienced Compupro guy that those
are the versions I'll want to operate the S-100 system I'm building in
interrupt mode rather than polled I/O mode under CP/M-80. All of the images
I've found online so far are for earlier versions of Compupro CP/M-80,
which I'm told will work in polled mode but lack the interrupt mode
support. But what do I know? I'm new to this stuff!
The same fellow tells me that Mr. Godbout has never authorized online
copying of
the Compupro software as some other out-of-print computer
manufacturers have, and has been known to express strong disagreement with
the practice. To which I naturally reply that I would be quite happy to buy
a new copy of Compupro CP/M-80 2.2R/2.2S at full retail list price from the
legitimate rights holder rather than downloading an image.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
Mark
It sounds like you have a similar system to mine. I'd expect you to be
able to boot the cpm86 or cpm 86 gg disks. The one disk that does not
download may have a typo in the file extension
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
10:38 p.m.
On Oct 29, 2016, at 22:37, william degnan
<billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
Mark
It sounds like you have a similar system to mine. I'd expect you to be
able to boot the cpm86 or cpm 86 gg disks. The one disk that does not
download may have a typo in the file extension
It's a Z-80 system. I can't use CP/M-86 on that, can I?
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
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