Floppy drive for Zenith 100

From: Tillman, Edward <Edward.Tillman_at_valero.com>
Date: Tue Feb 25 21:49:00 2003

Hmm... Would anyone be willing/able to explain the CP/M-86 OS to me --
either on or off the list? I'm still new enough that DOS was my world until
Windoze came along...

Cheers

Ed
San Antonio, Tx, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org_at_PEUSA On Behalf Of acme_at_ao.net
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 4:13 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Floppy drive for Zenith 100
>
> From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
> Date: 02/20/2003 7:58 PM
>
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 acme_at_ao.net wrote:
> >
> > > > OR you can get a copy of MS-DOS 4.00 and patch it to run on the
> Z-100.
> > >
> > > Jeez, Joe, now I'm really gagging. MS-DOS on a Z-100? Yuck.
> >
> > The Z-100 was intended as a dual OS machine. You had the best
> > (presumably) of both worlds: CP/M and MS-DOS.
>
> Sure -- that's how I set mine up, but to me, running MS-DOS on it makes it
> too
> much like a run-of-the-mill PC, whereas running CP/M-86 gives it more of a
> "vintage" flavor. Make sense? (I'm not feeling very articulate today)
>
> Later --
>
> Glen
> 0/0

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