The message 200404140850.53379.ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com from Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com contains these words:
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 20:59, Anthony Anson wrote:
I have CP/M but the box it lives in is borked ATM
ooooh, what sort of box is it. I have a Reasearch Machines 380Z sitting in my parents garage, booted last time I dug it out, got all the floppies somewhere safe. It had been built up to a 480Z with bits and bobs laying around my old schools IT department. Double sideded Drives, Colour Graphics card etc...
Sorry to disappoint you but it's an Amstrad PCW 8512, but it does have a 3œ" floppy drive as well as the 3" one, and has been added to so that it has a proper parallel port and an inkjet printer and (take a deep breath) a modem.
Also somewhere I have another CP/M machine built around a more standard bus (STE bus perhaps, not sure now but it was something quite generic) But that had a dud disk controller last time I tried to fire it up.
In short if you need help trying to resurrect your old CP/M machine, or want me to rumage though the 2nd machine I have for spares then let me know. The RM machine will be naff all use to you unless you needed drives or yours was a RM, they used a funny bus and "sometimes" a funny subset of CP/M.
I think the only promble is a borked elastic band on the 3" floopy drive, and I can get those. well, I did have the address but come to think of it, the drive it was written on stopped going round.
The reason I kept two of the Amstrads is that I have about forty CF2 discs to transcribe, the offer of a Locolink (if only I could remember who offered it!) and a set of Locoscript Professional floppies (for DOS).
I had the (silly) idea that if I transferred the stuff from the 3" discs to 3œ" ones (I still have some old double density ones) I could run a CP/M emulator on the PC and sneak the stuff in that way.
But no: I might have guessed. Disc format not recognised. Return to GO, do not collect £200.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the ZX80......