Date   : Wed, 25 Oct 1989 16:51:09 GMT
From   : xylogics!world!madd@CS.BU.EDU (jim frost)
Subject: Information req. and Re: Kaypro II Serial Port

In article <233@flash.UUCP> bill@flash.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
|If anyone has handy information about the serial port of the Kaypro II,
|I would be interested in getting same.  I will soon be wiring a cable
|between my mother's Kaypro and my CP/M system in order to transfer some
|software to her machine, and for once I would like to spend less than
|a day getting the correct combination of handshake signals established.

I have the technical manual for the whole kaypro line as of about two
years ago, so I can send you specs if you like.  I don't remember
anything in the manual other than pinouts and circuitry, however.
Mostly it is a "if this happens, replace the motherboard" document.
BTW, you can get this book from Kaypro but it'll take some
arm-twisting to do it.

Along a similar line, does anyone know where I can find information
about the Kaypro II ('83?  the pre-'84 model) hardware?  I really want
to implement a terminal emulator and possibly my own small OS, but
currently have little knowledge of the Z80 and the Kaypro hardware.
Given that I have the little beastie and it's not doing much now
except running my address program, I figure I ought to use it for
something.  If the thing has some kind of timer interrupt I'd love to
make a multitasking OS for it.

If anyone has any information on C compilers, commercial or otherwise,
which run on the Kaypro, I'd like leads on them too.

Thanks for any help,

jim frost
madd@std.com