Date   : Wed, 01 Nov 1989 03:38:09 GMT
From   : cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!nuchat!moray!urchin!f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org!Howard.Gerber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Howard Gerber)
Subject: CP/M-86 on Toshiba laptops

 I have, after a great deal of difficulty, been able to install a CP/M-86
partition on the hard disk of a Toshiba 286 laptop, but I still cannot
figure out any way to make a bootable 3.5" floppy.
 
  I put the CP/M partition on the hard disk by attaching the 5.25" drive 
of an external AT to the Toshiba through an adapter.  After installing 
the CP/M on the Toshiba, I had no difficulty booting it from the hard 
disk, but even when I format the 3.5" floppy on the Toshiba, and copy 
the software from the Toshiba's hard disk to the floppy, I cannot make
it boot. If this isn't frustrating enough, the Toshiba won't read 3.5"
floppies that are formated on the AT 286. BTW, both the Toshiba and the
AT have 2 Meg



 3.5" drives, and the AT has a 1.2 Meg 5.25" drive.
 
 Has anyone been able to make bootable 3.5" floppies?
 
 On the positive side, the Toshiba runs applications written for CP/M-86
faster and with less hassles than the AT, and of course, it is certainly
more portable!
 
 What applications, you might ask, are available for CP/M-86?  Well, it
seems that a number of industrial programs from Germany, especially those
for Siemens programmable logic controllers, are only available in CP/M-86
versions.

 * CP/M hasn't died  ... everybody just forgot how to use it. -- Howard