4 Oct
2002
4 Oct
'02
3:25 a.m.
> Does anyone have an image of the OSI Disk BASIC
disk?
Did they actually have anything called "Disk
BASIC"? When
I used OSI systems, they had two operating systems, OS-65/D
and OS-65/U (not sure of the punctuation in those).
There was advertised, at least in the UK, a disk expansion
(OSI 610) that included 12k disk BASIC on disk. From what
I remember if you got the fully populated expansion (24k)
and had the full complement of RAM on the CPU (8k) you had
19000 and something bytes free after loading the disk BASIC.
OS-65/D was what was normally found on smaller
systems.
It was a pathetic excuse for an operating system.
Now I've gone to the trouble of building the hardware I'd like
to try some original software on it.
Lee.
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8 Oct
8 Oct
8:39 p.m.
Lee,
First let me thank you for inspiring me to dust off my old C4P. It
required the usual backplane cleaning and chip reseating but lo and behold
it's working again. It has an 80 track DD 3.5 inch drive so I've made you a
copy of OS65D 3.3 along with some of Rich Tretheway's operating system
enhancements. Let me have your address and I'll put it in the mail. I
suppose it should be easier to email you the "disk image" but trust me when
I say that you will get it sooner if I mail it to you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Davison, Lee" <Lee.Davison(a)merlincommunications.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: RE: OSI disk basic disk
> Does anyone have an image of the OSI Disk
BASIC disk?
Did they actually have anything called "Disk
BASIC"? When
I used OSI systems, they had two operating systems, OS-65/D
and OS-65/U (not sure of the punctuation in those).
There was advertised, at least in the UK, a disk expansion
(OSI 610) that included 12k disk BASIC on disk. From what
I remember if you got the fully populated expansion (24k)
and had the full complement of RAM on the CPU (8k) you had
19000 and something bytes free after loading the disk BASIC.
OS-65/D was what was normally found on smaller
systems.
It was a pathetic excuse for an operating system.
Now I've gone to the trouble of building the hardware I'd like
to try some original software on it.
Lee.
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11:07 p.m.
First let me thank you for inspiring me to dust off
my old C4P. It
required the usual backplane cleaning and chip reseating but lo and behold
it's working again. It has an 80 track DD 3.5 inch drive so I've made you a
copy of OS65D 3.3 along with some of Rich Tretheway's operating system
enhancements. Let me have your address and I'll put it in the mail. I
suppose it should be easier to email you the "disk image" but trust me when
I say that you will get it sooner if I mail it to you.
Goodness, I'm glad you did that. My conscience has been gnawing at me to
but getting the time is proving difficult.
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