On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
I think a couple of people expressed an interest in
boot disks for the
Philips P2000C a few weeks ago. I only just got into the museum stores
today to see what we have.
Reading off disk labels (I know *nothing* about these machines!)...
Specific (original) 2000C floppies I found:
* Copower disk CP/M
* Copower disk MSDOS 2.11
Wordstar 3.3 Calcstar 1.45 CP/M 2.2
ABASIC P 2509-L / TTY P 2526-L
Grafox Dataplot+
* P2000C Maintenance Program MN11
Also the following copies (I have no idea how a P2012C differs from a
P2000C!):
P2012C CP/M
P2012C MSDOS Utilities
P2012 Cardbox
P2012-16 CP/M boot disk for MSDOS (P2000C mode) <non-IBM MSDOS s/w>
P2012-16 CP/M boot disk for MSDOS (PC mode) <IBM PC software>
P2012-16 MSDOS (P2000C mode) System disk <non-IBM PC software>
P2012-16 MSDOS (PC mode) System disk <IBM PC software>
P2012-16 P2012C CP/M MS-boot, MS-util, R/disk copy of master disk
P2012-16 P2012C MSDOS utilities copy of master disk
P2012-16 Copower disk CP/M copy of master disk
P2012-16 Copower disk MSDOS 2.11 copy of master disk
P2012-16 CP/M 2.2, Wordstar 3.3, Calcstar 1.45 copy of master disk
P2012-16 ABASIC P 2509-L TTY P 2526-L copy of master disk
P2012-16 Grafox Dataplot+ copy of master disk
P2012-16 Maintenance program MN11 copy of master disk
P2012-16 Test pattern disk for use with MN11 maintenance software
A lot of those copied P2012 disks sound suspiciously like direct copies
of the P2000C originals. What's the difference between the machines?
What's the easiest way of copying these? I can put a 360K 5.25" drive in
my desktop PC and run off some disk images, assuming they aren't some
oddball format which the PC controller can't cope with. What's the best
software to use? (I can boot MSDOS, Linux or Win 2k on the desktop)
Jules, my personal preference is for TeleDisk which runs best on a
clean DOS boot. I have used it - in varying iterations -for over
ten years.
No idea if data is intact on the disks of course, but
they're all boxed
and look to be dust free.
I would happily take any images that you cared to forward, but
particularly the ones that I marked with an asterisk.
- don
I also found the following P2000C documentation,
although scanning is
probably out of the question (happy to look stuff up though!):
P2000C System reference and service manual set
CP/M reference manual
MSDOS user guide
Copower board reference manual
Calcstar manual
Wordstar manuals 1 and 2
Disk BASIC reference manual
P2000C operator manual
Dataplot+ user and reference manual
Advanced BASIC interpreter operator manual
TTY user guide
CP/M user guide
P2000C software catalogue
cheers,
Jules