On 12/27/12 11:55 PM, "Jim Brain" <brain at jbrain.com> wrote:
It appears I am clueless about Kaypro machines
* The machines: 4, 4+88, 10, and 1
* Can't get anyone of them to boot. All but the 4+88 boot to a
screen, but nothing else. I have a K1 CP/M disk someone from the
list sent in 2009, and I tried that in all of them, to no avail.
The disk on the 1, at least, seems to work, as it knows when I put
in a non OS disk, and tells me, but nothing else. If it had a read
error, would it not tell me? It does move the head and such when I
insert the OS disk, so it appears to be reading it. Still, it never
drops to a prompt.
My regret is that I should have tested the system disk I previously
received as soon as I got it in the mail, but we moved shortly after
receiving it, and have not had the items out of storage since 2009. So,
the disk could have been mishandled by me or the movers in the interim.Jim
Go to Dave's old computers :)
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm
Dave dunfield has kaypro system disks that you can download and write out
using a PC and floppy drive using imagedisk
The 10 should boot up off the HDD IIRC. It needs parked before powering
off.