need CP/M boot disks

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sun Apr 20 23:38:00 2003

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 xtguy_at_mindspring.com wrote:

> I was told that Don Maslin can help me with boot disks for some old CP/M
> computers. I need boot disks for the following:
>
> Morrow Micro Decision MD 1
> Epson QX-10
> several different Kaypro models
>
> I tried to make a boot disk for the Morrow using 22disk and the 'STDCPM22'
> file at 'www.retroarchive.org'. 22disk did not have a file format for the
> Morrow MD 1, so I used the format for the Morrow MD 2. (As far as I have
> been able to find out, the MD1 had full height floppy disk drives and the
> MD2 had half-height drives, but they were the same capacity). When I tried
> to use the floppy to boot the computer, it would spin for about 15 seconds,
> then the computer would reboot.

The format for MD-1 and MD-2 are the same. The major difference
between the machines is that the -1 is a single drive machine
while the -2 has - surprise - two! His 'STDCPM22' of course would
not work as it is not tailored to the Morrow hardware, and even
had it been, 22Disk will not normally write a boot track.

> I was making the boot disk on a computer which had a 360K floppy drive.
>
> Thanks!
>
> xtguy

I have contacted Kevin off-list and hope to get him up and running
soon.
                                                - don
Received on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 23:38:00 BST