Date : Tue, 11 Aug 1992 22:17:45 GMT
From : yuma!lamar!richichi@purdue.edu (Mike Richichi)
Subject: Re: question for kaypro experts
In article <1992Aug11.150759.21158@cfa203.harvard.edu> babb@cfaitamp2.harvard.edu
(James Babb) writes:
>Here is a question for Kaypro experts.
>
>
>I have a Kaypro 2, ROM 81-292. It has 2 drives and 2 serial ports.
>The only software I have is a "wordstar and mailmerge" disk,
>which works fine in the machine, and I can use "dir", but do
>not have "format" or "copy". So, I figured I need a system disk of some sort.
>
>So, I ordered a system disk from Don Maslin, who keeps the CPM archives.
>Don sent me two disks DSDD, the system (cpm 2.2g) and a comm program disk,
MEX.
>
>There is a problem. The machine can not boot off of the system disk.
>Also my machine does not show anything on the disks!
I think the problem is the system disks you have. A Kaypro 2 of that
vintage (I think that rom is probably one of the first, what's the
serial # on your machine?) is definitely SSDD disks.
>
>If I load the mailmerge disk, I can use the dir commmand. It
>shows for the cpm disk something like....
>
>A0>dir a:
>A: : : :
>A: : : :
>A: : : :
>A: : : :
>A: : : :
>A: : : :
>A: : : :
>A: : : :
>
>and for the MEX disk
>A0>dir a:
>A:
>
Yeah, I seem to remember something like that being the sign of trying to
use double-sided disks in the machine.
Go back to Don and tell him you need single sided disks. CP/M 3.3 fits
just fine on 2 191 K disks (but you really only need one to boot, the
other is just additional utilities.) It's an honest mistake--later
models called Kaypro 2 have double-sided drives, however the Kaypro II
(which is most likely what you have) does not.
I might be able to help you out, but I haven't booted my Kaypro in
months and am not sure it's still working. Changes are Don's a better
shot anyway. Good luck.
Mike Richichi, Dept. of Physics, Colorado State Univ.
richichi@lamar.colostate.edu mrichich@drunivac.bitnet
"Aw, ya blurred me!" --MST3K