Sage II

[william degnan]

great to hear

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:40 PM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:

> On 2016-10-30 15:40, william degnan wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 9:44 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
>>
>
> I also got last week a IBM PC 5170, if I could get it working,
>>> it should be able to write the SAGE II floppies, right?
>>>
>> if it's a 96 tpi drive and you have a newer OS like DOS 6.2 running on it.
>>
>
> OK, I got the IBM 5170 somehow working, got the sage II starting,
> copied the system disk (SYSTEM.IMD) to the 5 1/4 disk,
> and it boots !!!
>
> Crashed after a while, and only shows 128K (512k is populated),
> Monitor is Version 2.1, but it is a start !!!
>
> Thanks to all who helped!
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