I was finally able to get the Superpak software version I needed, but it wasn't actually on modem7's site.
Update:
Thanks again everyone. I finally found the software. I guess my Alzheimer’s is getting Alzheimer’s! I got the software downloaded and stored on my Windows 7 computer. Alice is finally home again, but Ed only got the WD controller and Control Data disk drive installed.
That means that even though the system useable, I still do not have any way to get the software onto floppy disk so I can begin loading some stuff onto Alice’s “C” drive. My old Compaq is destroyed, and was taken apart in order to use the 5 ¼” floppy in another Tweener systems rebuild! This time we are using one of two Gateway towers that were given to me a short time ago especially for that purpose. The computer is running using an Intel P4 processor, 128 Megs of RAM, with 2 hard disks. The boot disk is a 10 Gig Western Digital, and the other is a 40 Gig Seagate drive. We will have plenty of storage for my entire collection of DOS software. Not only do we have enough storage capacity, but there is a lot of space inside the towers to move around a bit.
One thing we found about both of the Gateway computers I have is that neither will accept more than one floppy disk through the BIOS. We were going to simply add the 360Kb 5 ¼” DSDD floppy to one of them and continue rebuilding around that, but since there is no real choice but to have either the 3.5” floppy drive, or the 360K; that choice was made by the system.
As of right now too, none of my computers have a 9 pin serial port either, so I’m stuck with no way to bring anything over to the 5150 for installation onto its new hard disks.
My next project is to check out a few things. First, I want to verify that all of the hardware is installed and configured properly. From what Ed has told me, we are going to need to take one day a week to work on one item. Since the most important aspect of this restoration is to enable Alice to access data on other computers on my network, I want to start with the Intel 8/16 LAN adapter, then the modem.
For now, I am just happy to have my 5150 and 5161 system back home and on its own desk, where she belongs. And, the new power center is already making it easier to boot the system. I do not have to pretend that I’m some sort of contortionist just to flip a switch. Not a bad $10.00 investment.
As I stated before, if it were not for the expansion unit, my 5150 would have been complete, but NOOOoo; I had to have ambition to make it the best possible 5150 system out there, which means that I have to have the expansion unit installed. So I accept that challenge and make it my own. Its just going to take a bit more work.
I'll keep you all updated as more progress is made.