Have you tried asking Baydel themselves - they are still going ... http://www.baydel.com/contact/uk.asp I used to deal with them professionally, as we had a lot of their raid and serial cards, plus some of the older pdp-11 based kit, and always found them very helpful. Rob. At 21:59 21/05/2006, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

Since the Model 4 (and I assume 4p) native format is double density, you can write the disks on just about an PC. And disk images for things like LS-DOS 6.31. (which I use on my Model 4) are available from Tim Mann's site. This leaves the problem of you not having a PC with 5.25" drives. You might find it easiest to 'borrow' the drives from the 4p and cable one of them up to a PC controller. Write the boot disk, then reassemble the 4P. -tony

Folks, I met the previous owner of this machine earlier tonight and I'm now the owner of the best preserved example I've seen - no discolouration or dust and some of the best internal wiring mods I've come across in a home computer, almost works of art. Recovered kit: Sorcerer 1 with S100 expansion and twin Micropolis floppy drives, Transtec 1200 monitor, user and technical docs with schematics and a bundle of ESCape mags from the european user group. Interestingly there's a pair of colour boards fitted from 'stuart micrographics' that I can find huge amounts of nothing about. Info is hopefully buried in the ESCape magazines but if anyone has heard of them please let me know :) Ta! -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?