>From: "dave04a_at_dunfield.com" <dave04a_at_dunfield.com>
>
>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
Hi Dave
You mean:
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
Anyway, great stuff Dave.
Dwight
>
>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:
>-----------------
>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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