Hi, as is customary for many a mailing list, I should introduce myself first. My name is David Rowntree, I am a systems engineer, working for Philips Semiconductors, based in Southampton, UK. My interests centre mainly on UNIX systems, but I like anything computational and old. I recently found my Research Machines 380Z in a pile of junk, and got interested in it again. For those who don't know, its a Z80 based CP/M machine sold in the UK, mainly to schools and other educational establishments. Mine came from Imperial College, London, where I studied for my Meng in Electronic engineering. The box in question is a RML-380Z-D model, with dual 5 1/4" drives, and I think, 32K RAM. It has two video boards (I believe this is the hires option) and an additional ram board(cpu board with most bits removed) an analog i/o card, and seems to have firmware 'COS4.2A' The date of the box is '83, and is complete with its keyboard, and even the dust cover! Unfortunantly - NO SOFTWARE AT ALL. Not even cp/m :( I know next to nothing about this box, so my query: Does anybody have the system disks? How about documentation of the firmware? I've found various bits of cp/m source, but nothing specific to the 380z. I believe it ran cpm2. One other point - I believe you hit 'b' to bootstrap the floppy - when I do this there is NO disk activity (even with a floppy in the drive) I've tried both drives, and both cable positions. The drive psu gives stable volts, so that's not the problem. I'm sure it should do something! There is an LED on the floppy controller, it flashes with a kind of 'heart beat' pattern i.e. Flash-flash--pause--flash-flash--pause etc. Anybody know if this is normal? You guys are possibly my last hope - I've spent a total of over 20 hours scouring the web for info, and have come up with very little. I'd like to get as much on this box as possible, for preservation reasons - and so I can build a website about it. Many thanks in advance for anybody who can help me out! Dave. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/