Date   : Tue, 08 May 1984 19:42:00-PDT
From   : Dick <MEAD@USC-ECLB.ARPA>
Subject: ZCPR2 on Kaypro <query>

I have been tryning to put ZCPR2 on the Kaypro 2 with poor results.
I first used the pre-configed Z2-KPRO.LBR file on SIMTEL20, but found
it to lack a few things, as well as exhibiting a peculiar fault with
most Perfect and some other software where the drive would no shut off
until a key is typed. Looking at the bios HEX overlay provided, it
appears some code in the CONIN section (drive timeout) was removed
to make room for the ZCPR2 init code. I have tried to alter both the
BIOS source and the boot rom source to init the ZCPR2 buffers, leaving
the rest of the code intact, but I always have the same failure after
a Warm boot, where the system can no longer see any files on disk
as far as executing them, while DIR shows they exist. Just before
the Warm boot, the programs load and run normally, and do so until
a warm boot. I am stumped. What is so fragile about the size and/or
location of new code in either the bios or rom??? I get a normal boot
but the WARM BOOT kills all, what gives? Any Kaypro guru's out there?