Saturday morning, a good coffee and TRC. What else can I ask for ??? Love this video. Hope to have the opportunity to get a Kaypro one of these years....
As a Kaypro II owner, it's a cool computer! Just remember not to have a floppy diskette in the drive when powering on. The monitor's frequency, on boot up, can destroy the diskette. So boot up, wait for the prompt, then insert the diskette. Thanks for the great video!
copy = diskcopy pip = copy Don't remember what pip stood for. It's been a minute. The first shop I worked at when I was 16 serviced kaypro, S100(compupro, Northstar , etc and MS-DOS machines in addition to the obligatory dumb terminals, dot matrix, daisy wheel , thermal and band printers. Seriously those were good times! Always something new, something amazing.
Look forward to seeing the video when I can. My boss had me keying COBOL on one of these. The screen was nice and by the standards of the day quite a compact unit. I know why he did not want to type on it, the metal keyboard case sucked all the heat out of your hands. The floppy drives would go out of alignment when the unit got warmed up.
25:28 - Some IC companies used silver plating on the IC pins, they get tarnished resulting in black crust. 41:00 this disk just has a bootloader that displays this message. You need to boot from CP/M first then run the games.
The termination resistor pack can go on drive A or B, as long as it is on the last drive on the cable. There are quite a few nice games on CP/M. My favourites are Tetris, Wanderer and Rogue.
RJ22 is the standard telephone handset cord connector, so a standard handset cord should work. The Amiga 1000 uses one of these for its keyboard too. Most RJ11 crimp tools will also work with RJ22 connectors.
Saturday morning, a good coffee and TRC. What else can I ask for ??? Love this video. Hope to have the opportunity to get a Kaypro one of these years....
As a Kaypro II owner, it's a cool computer! Just remember not to have a floppy diskette in the drive when powering on. The monitor's frequency, on boot up, can destroy the diskette. So boot up, wait for the prompt, then insert the diskette. Thanks for the great video!
A like CP/M machines a lot! Nice video!
copy = diskcopy
pip = copy
Don't remember what pip stood for. It's been a minute.
The first shop I worked at when I was 16 serviced kaypro, S100(compupro, Northstar , etc
and MS-DOS machines in addition to the obligatory dumb terminals, dot matrix, daisy wheel , thermal and band printers.
Seriously those were good times! Always something new, something amazing.
Look forward to seeing the video when I can. My boss had me keying COBOL on one of these. The screen was nice and by the standards of the day quite a compact unit. I know why he did not want to type on it, the metal keyboard case sucked all the heat out of your hands. The floppy drives would go out of alignment when the unit got warmed up.
25:28 - Some IC companies used silver plating on the IC pins, they get tarnished resulting in black crust.
41:00 this disk just has a bootloader that displays this message. You need to boot from CP/M first then run the games.
The termination resistor pack can go on drive A or B, as long as it is on the last drive on the cable.
There are quite a few nice games on CP/M. My favourites are Tetris, Wanderer and Rogue.
What a beauty! I would love to have one of these! Oh and good job! ;-)
try pressing enter :)
RJ22 is the standard telephone handset cord connector, so a standard handset cord should work. The Amiga 1000 uses one of these for its keyboard too. Most RJ11 crimp tools will also work with RJ22 connectors.
but remember to check the pinout as telephone handset cords are not straight through but flipped/reversed polarity.
Next step is to fit a FlashFloppy modded Gotek to avoid relying on all those mouldy diskettes 😊
The basic disk did say “the master disk may only be used to make copies” - it did force you!
How is this implemented? Something different instead of CPM in the boot sector?
83rd week of 2015 haha
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