Date   : Sun, 02 Dec 1990 05:03:19 GMT
From   : zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!nosun!qiclab!techbook!fzsitvay@uunet.uu.net (Frank Zsitvay)
Subject: Strange Kaypro problems

In article <1990Nov30.143804.28107@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu
(Jeffrey J Wieland) writes:
>In article <1990Nov29.234234.3270@techbook.com> fzsitvay@techbook.com
(Frank Zsitvay) writes:
>>  now i'm wondering - do i have a 2x or a 2/83??  on my machine, the motor
>>times out (in fact, it stops right after the disk access, but the light
>>stays on.  this thing also has to be the fastest booting-from-the-floppy
>>machine ever built.  (tick tick tick A>  )
>
>The quick way to tell whether you have an '83 or on '84 is to look
>at the back of the computer.  '83's have one serial port, '84's have
>two (DB-25's, of course).  '84's also have video attributes -- inverse,
>dim, underline, and blinking.  They also can display block graphics, and
>have a fine line drawing character set available.  The '83's can only do 
>blinking video, and they have a Greek alternate character set.

   ok, mine has one serial port, and no graphics or attributes.  also,
after formatting a double sided kaypro floppy on my AT with uniform,
the kaypro claimed it was a single sided floppy, so apparently it has
single sided drives.   would i need to change the bios to add double
sided drives??  (i'd like to put qd drives on it, or better yet, 1.2
meg AT floppies by faking the controller to think it's talking to
an 8 inch drive, if that's possible.  is there a rom available that 
would allow 8 inch drives to be connected to a kaypro??
 
   also, what is needed to upgrade the video to the 84 standard??
i use vde as a text editor, and it need reverse video to show
control characters.

   also, how do you tell if the machine has a IV motherboard???  if
mine does, then i could probably get dsdd or qd drives to work
in it.


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