Hi Bob,
I would be interested in this - I Am located in Ottawa, and am planning to
be in Toronto later this month or early next month - where exactly are you
located?
And I have a pair of TM100-2 drives sitting on the shelf!
The Horizon is a nice machine - used to have one years ago, and have not
been
able to find another... I have a NorthStar disk controller installed in my
Altair, which runs NorthStar DOS as well as my own DMF system.
There's a simulator for this machine on my "museum" page:
http://www.dunfield.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
This will let you boot up NorthStar DOS on your PC!
Also have most of the NorthStar manuals and a lot of other reference info.
scanned and posted there, which may be of use to you.
Regards,
Dave Dunfield
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Original Message:
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From: RMaxwell_at_atlantissi.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:49:20 -0400
To: cctech_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: IBM 5150 and Full-height 5.25" Floppy Drives
I've been restoring a NorthStar Horizon that had its 5.25" full-height
double-sided floppy drives removed long ago. A friend has given me another
computer with those drives, but when I inspected it, I realized that it's a
true-blue IBM 5150 PC in very good condition! The 5.25" drives' front
panels are marked with the "IBM" logo, which makes them less-than-genuine
for installation into a pre-IBM microcomputer.
There may be parties that would protest stripping one "classic" to restore
another: I'm hoping if there might be someone interested in both/either:
- acquiring the 5150 as is (256K RAM [4 rows of 64K] on motherboard, plus
256K more on expansion card, no monitor);
- supplying (Tandon TM100-2?) full-height DS 5.25" drives for the Horizon.
The big hole in the Horizon's front panel really calls out for full-height
drives. Any help/ideas/suggestions? I'm located in Southern Ontario,
Canada and am contemplating attending VCF East.
Bob Maxwell
rmaxwell_at_atlantissi.com
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