Looking for North star software

[systems_glitch]

Mike Douglas has a bunch of North Star utilities that you can use to "bare
metal bootstrap" disks:

http://deramp.com/northstar.html

Unless you have a stockpile of hard-sector disks, you probably also want
his Virtual Sector Generator board:

http://deramp.com/vsg.html

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:16 PM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> I was thinking someone has already done this. If no, as you say, it is not
> an impossible task.
>
> The TSS/B is suppose to be their scientific package. It at least has BASIC
> in it. I have another disk marked CP/M in the same box. I should be able to
> put something together under CP/M.
>
> It is a North Star Horizon. There seems to be some images out there so I
> don't know how they are being captured.
>
> Dwight
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Looking for North star software
>
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> > I have a machine that I'm just now bringing up. I have some boot
> > software but it is TSS/A that is the accounting multi-user package. I'd
> > really like the TSS/B floppies instead. I'd settle for images.
>
> Sounds like fun!
>
> What model Northstar?
>
> Once you get some images, have you worked out a way to get the images onto
> hard-sector disks?
>
> AFTER you boot the machine, with some minimal programs, you can transfer
> data into the machine through serial port.
>