I would like to get a pair of Model 7200 DRI 8 inch floppy drives going for an Exidy Sorcerer connected via a Digitrio controller board inside their enclosure. The manufacturer is an apparently a British company called DRI or Data Recording Instrument Company Limited according to the...
SIG/M appears to have published 100s of volumes of CP/M software. A cursory search does not turn up an archive of these disks.
Are they out there?
Cheers,
Michael
P.S. Can a mod fix the typo in the subject line :-) Poor OCR
Computer Systems News was 'a bi-weekly tabloid newspaper with such editors as Al Perlman (now with Ziff), Maureen O'Gara (now a newsletter editor) and Tom Ewing (now a freelance writer).'[1]. It was published by CMP Publications.
Library of Congress holdings appear to being in 1985 if I am...
Model A9M0106 for the purpose of archiving disks with an Applesauce controller.
Ideally working and ejecting disks properly although I will clean and service during magnet installation.
Will need to be shipped to Oz.
Thanks,
Michael
I'm looking for some help to develop a cpmtools+libdisk definition to allow the extraction of files from an image of a CP/M 2.2 master disk for the Exidy FDS (Floppy Disk Subsystem). I don't believe CP/M (2.2) for this controller has previously been preserved...
Does anyone know whether these items were acquired by a cultural institution or have they been lost to a private collector?
https://surfdaddy.com/tag/sorcerer/
They sat on ebay for a long time at USD12.5K and appear to have sold some time ago. I have access to some of the newsletters and don't...
I would like to get an interstate Sorcerer owner to provide me with a dump of his specific customised Monitor ROM.
It contains part of the CBIOS for an Australian floppy controller which ultimate I would like to build a copy of and also see emulated in MAME.
The instructions here for the CP/M...
William Ragsdale speaking on FORTH day yesterday at the Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group (SVFIG) meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXBeFSOTrK4&t=10620s
Getting heads to load using cleaning disc on Mitsubishi M4853 DSDD 5.25" loppy drive
Trekked out to the computer shop where I bought my M4853 DSDD drive to pick up a cleaning disc today because prices for these things on ebay are more than I paid for the drive.
The proprietor and I agreed that...
This was originally a ROMPAC application but was converted by the Sorcerer User Group Sydney to operate in RAM relocatably (if that is a word).
Hence it was called RWP.
I used it for around 4 years as my Word Processor at High School and University connected to a (very loud) dot matrix printer...