CP/M for Osborne-1

From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_hiway1.exit109.com>
Date: Sat Nov 8 09:03:09 1997

> > BTW, does anyone know if there were 3rd party 80-columns upgrades? A while
> > back, I got a disk from Don Maslin which was supposed to be a 80-col
> > boot disk. Although it booted fine on his and several other systems, it
> > would never boot mine. I later tried reinstalling the patches on the disk
> > to a fresh copy of CP/M- no luck either. It also crashes totally when I
> > try to set the baud rate of the "programmable" clock generator referenced in
> > the README for the disk.
>
> That would be the one that is listed as the OS1NUEVO in my SYSDISK list.
> I don't know the answer to your question, John, but it is certainly
> possible. Do you now have a bootable SSDD-80 column disk for your
> machine? I'd be interested in a copy to compare.

Nope. Interestingly, if I use SYSGEN to load the CP/M from the disk after
it is booted, it will switch into 80-col mode and stay that way until
powered off.

Possibility 2- I wonder if some jumpers are set wrong/different.

<<<John>>>
Received on Sat Nov 08 1997 - 09:03:09 GMT