John,
I would be interested in the "drivers and setup disks for older
machines", assuming they are for the XT PCs and above. Even a
copy of the disks would do. This would be for the Drivers Archive
at The DriverZone.
http://www.driverzone.com/
And the Laser Compact XT that you have was my first PC. Was
not a very rugged unit. The keyboard contacts wore out on mine.
Was a horrible machine to take apart and put back together again.
And the external units that you have. Laser wanted you to buy
them from one of their distributors at $200 a pop, but they
could easily be bought from Computer Shopper for around $120
(including S&H). There were no special drivers needed, since
the computer already had a plug just for the unit. I think that
there was a dip-switch that you set for that. And most of these
PCs came with a dual video card. Mine was monochrome/CGA and the
later units were monochrome/EGA. There is a slide switch on the
back of the PC to select the desired video.
Jim Webster
John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
>
> I have slowed down my collecting a bit because of space (warehouse and 4
> storage units full plus what's in the house), so I'm looking for manuals and
> specific machines to round out certain brands/models. Today I got 30+ books
> for 10 cent each and one was a CP/M-86 operating system System Guide by
> digital research dated April 15, 1983 Rev. 00 in very good shape. I also
> got a ton of old software include on 5 1/4 diskettes for free. A lot of
> drivers and setup disk for older machines. Saturday I did pickup a Laser
> Computer XT that looks just like a Laser 128 must use the same cases. I
> also got two external floppies with it. Keep computing.
Received on Mon Jul 19 1999 - 20:02:30 BST