New find, Heathkit H89 computer.

[Bob Shannon]

Sorry I missed your reply until now...

I was showing a plane I have for sale (have to pay for my new Lotus!).

The one bootable disk I have appears to be soft-sectored.

How can I get O/S software for a soft-sectored H89?

Can you still buy 360K media?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dwight elvey" <dkelvey at hotmail.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: RE: New find, Heathkit H89 computer.


>
> Hi Bob
> There is a group at www.sebhc.org that you should joint. They have a
> reasonable collection of software. They use a image transfer tool that I 
> wrote.
> You won't find much on manuals. There is someone that bought the copyright
> to all of the HeathKit stuff and watches it closely for infringment.
> Software is a different story, being that he was a Ham and mainly 
> interested
> in manuals.
> It also sounds like you have a hard sectored drive( look at the disk for 
> 11
> index holes ). I've converted an old SA400 frame into a punch for hard 
> sectored
> disk. One uses 360K disk. If you are interrested in borrowing, let me 
> know.
> I have several manuals as well.
> I might be in your area today or sometime soon.
> Dwight
>
>>From: "Bob Shannon" <bshannon at tiac.net>
>>
>>I've just come across a new vintage system.
>>
>>I've been given a Heathkit H-89 computer with some documentation and one 
>>bootable diskette.
>>
>>Its booting HDOS, but I don't have any HDOS specific documentation, just 
>>the 'Operation' and
>>assembly manuals (the 'Operation' manual is really theory of operation 
>>material).
>>
>>Does anyone have the ability to make a set of 'distribution' HDOS disks 
>>(100K floppy)?
>>
>>Is CP/M also available, or the Heathkit diagnostics disk?
>>
>>I've not been able to find much HDOS documentation on-line, does anyone 
>>have pointers?
>>
>>
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