NEC APC boot disks CP/M-86 and DOS

[Rich Bramante]

Yes, I found Dave's instructions for hooking the 8" drive to a PC to transfer
the images awhile ago, and like you realized I would not be able to get to
such a project anytime soon hence my short-circuit request.
 
I hadn't thought about going in the other direction and hooking a 5.25" to the
APC.  Has anybody else tried this?

rich

>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:08:26 -0800 (PST)
>From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: NEC APC boot disks CP/M-86 and DOS
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>Message-ID: <20060316000826.89285.qmail at web61024.mail.yahoo.com>
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>
>if you get the little asterisk on yer screen there,
>you're probably alright. I recently pulled the floppy
>drives out of one of my APCs aiming to plug them into
>a pc using Dave Dunfield's instructions (those NEC
>drives use a 50pin plug, so I'm going to have to
>either etch an adapter board or do something else
>freaky). Once there, I presumably could not only image
>the disks I do have (condition unknown) - Dos, DBase
>II, and Autocad I think - but also create boot disks
>from Dave's or my images. I don't put alot of stock in
>old floppies, but when the golden day comes, I could
>mail you a disk or two, don't know if they'd work or
>not, but that's not going to be this week. Probably
>not next or the week after either. The other option is
>to set up a modern pc with a hd 1.2meg 5 1/4" drive,
>burn images to that, then plug that into your APC.
>Worth a try.
>
>--- Dave Dunfield <dave06a at dunfield.com> wrote:
>
>> Anybody out there willing to snail mail me a
>> couple of 8" boot disks for the
>> original APC?  I've got 2 of these sitting around
>> with no software, wanted to
>> test them out. If so please contact me off-list.
>> 
>> I have images of MS-DOS, CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal
>> boot disks for the
>> APC posted to my site (ImageDisk format).
>> 
>> --
>> dave06a (at)    Dave Dunfield
>> dunfield (dot)  Firmware development services &
>> tools: www.dunfield.com
>> com             Collector of vintage computing
>> equipment:
>>                
>> http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html


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