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2025 2

  1. Multicopy Program for Kaypro Computers (Plu*Perfect)
  2. Kaypro Terminal Emulation

2024 29

  1. floppy test and disk imaging system
  2. Kaypro - Kaycomp II
  3. Kaypro II CHAR ROMs
  4. Formatting a 3.5" Floppy Disk
  5. Formatting a Floppy Disk
  6. Seagate Hard Disks
  7. MFM Emulator
  8. Formatting a Kaypro Hard Disk Drive
  9. Information
  10. 4K to 8K EPROM Kaypro 10 Modification
  11. TurboROM
  12. Tandon TM848-02
  13. Testimonials
  14. Noth Star Horizon S-100 boards
  15. Images of the Hercules Text Card
  16. capacitors
  17. TRANEX 4 3751
  18. ALTAIR 8800
  19. CLEAN PRO-CHAR
  20. ICC Gould 100-0062
  21. Altair FDC+
  22. Godbout ECONOROM 2708
  23. IMSAI Plexiglas top cover
  24. IMS 8K static RAM boards
  25. 3D print IMSAI paddle switches
  26. IMS 16K Static RAM
  27. IMSAI 8K ROM BASIC
  28. ROM Monitors
  29. Programming 2708 EPROMs

2023 41

  1. CompuPro Interfacer1
  2. Lynx 470
  3. Stepper - Head Positioning
  4. North * Star - Micro Disk System
  5. DEC RX180
  6. Shugart 400L
  7. North Star Virtual Horizon
  8. The Solid State PB1 Board.
  9. Sol 20
  10. Cromemco 8K Bytesaver
  11. Quad-Flop – 8" floppy adapter - by TexElec
  12. North Star Horizon ZPB-A2
  13. Retro Chip Tester Professional
  14. Reading real old 8" Sisyphus CP/M 2.2
  15. MicroSolutions Megamate 2.8 - CompatiCard IV
  16. FDFORMAT
  17. 8FORMAT
  18. New Shugart SA851
  19. Galep-5, Barlino II, HVEPROM project by Matthew Millman
  20. DRAM Tester by Stephen Vickers
  21. Polar D320 Digitalic DRAM and IC Tester
  22. Temple (95,000 MFD, 15V)
  23. YAZE-AG
  24. Emulator
  25. CPMTOOLS
  26. N* Horizon
  27. Front Panel (CPA)
  28. pins 20 & 70
  29. Siemens FDD211-5
  30. S-100 RAM Boards
  31. TM100-2/2A
  32. North Star History
  33. BASF 6128-C
  34. Making my own hard-sectored floppy disks
  35. Reading hard-sectored disks with KryoFlux
  36. Greaseweazle
  37. a hard-sectored floppy disk
  38. 8" YD-180 floppy disk drive
  39. 8" Shugart 800/801 floppy disk drive
  40. Shugart 860
  41. Kaypro Virtual

2022 17

  1. Kaypro monitor ROM
  2. CRT copper shield
  3. PC-34 to Shugart-50 8" floppy adapter
  4. Intel Above Board Plus and Plus I/O
  5. RoadRunner ROM
  6. The Silicon Jungle
  7. Oracle's Virtual Box
  8. Will CP/M talk to DOS
  9. Kermit on the Kaypro
  10. My Kaypro Robie
  11. how do I get my drive to spin at 300 RPM instead of 360
  12. TOP 3 Usage Statistics
  13. COLLECTIONS
  14. Software / Generics / SuperCopy.
  15. UniForm CP/M
  16. UniForm-PC
  17. TEAC brochures

2021 38

  1. IBM Fixed Disk and Diskette Drive Adapter
  2. IBM AT 5170
  3. Gotek & FlashFloppy
  4. Jumper settings
  5. Panasonic JU-475-2 EAF
  6. Panasonic JU-475-5 AKO
  7. IBM 51xx PC Family Computers / 5170
  8. AST RAMpage AT
  9. AST Rampage 286
  10. Floppy Disk / Diskettes
  11. Etherlink III / 3Com / 3C509B
  12. Source Code
  13. PC-elevATor
  14. Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah - Slippin away
  15. Accessing DOS partitions with FAT
  16. Many RC2014 pages
  17. RC2014 Images
  18. Mitsubishi M2896-63-02M
  19. Bootsector & BIOS Parameter Block (BPB)
  20. Oracle VM VirtualBox on my Windows 10 computer
  21. Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles
  22. MS-DOS floppy disk formats
  23. TEAC FD-55AV
  24. standard IBM MFM track format
  25. Floppy Disk Drive / FDC / Steprate
  26. Floppy Disk Drives / Data Cable
  27. (TEAC FD-55BV-31-U, TEAC FD 55GV-14-U, TEAC FD-55GFR-620-U, TEAC FD-55GFR-7393-U)
  28. the termination resistor
  29. FLUXCOPY
  30. ISA Floppy Disk and Serial Controller - Sergej Kiselev
  31. R/W head, gap and core geometry, half-tracks, double-stepping, ...
  32. IBM XT Model 286 (XT/286)
  33. Xircom PE3 / Pocket Ethernet Adapter III
  34. Altair-Duino Pro
  35. Recording problems / Reading, writing and formatting 360K disks in 1.2M drives
  36. Floppy Disk Drives: Bus Interfaces
  37. CompactFlash (CF)
  38. One Controller, Four Floppy Disk Drives

2020 20

  1. IBM XT 5160 (64-256K)
  2. XT-XF-Lite
  3. Exploring the low-level structure of an IBM floppy disk
  4. Examine the BASF CE alignment diskette with the KryoFlux
  5. KryoFlux
  6. Master Menu
  7. Floppy disk controller
  8. File exchange between DOS and CP/M.
  9. What the heck are USER AREAS?
  10. TEAC FD-30A
  11. Hc100
  12. TEAC FD-35HFN
  13. NEC FD-1165-FQ
  14. Microsolutions backpack CD-ROM
  15. BabyBlue II (Microlog)
  16. Siemens 9775 / BASF 6106
  17. Updated the series about the BASF 6106; the LSI version. Now the jumper settings are clear!
  18. The IBM PC 5160 16-64KB mainboard with Super PC BIOS v3.1
  19. Delta Products / XOR / reading 8" floppy disks (FM/MFM)
  20. CompatiCard IV

2019 21

  1. YM2149/ AY-3-8910 Sound Card
  2. ZETA V2
  3. Setting up a hard disk with HDMAINT
  4. Using an external 5.25" floppy diskette drive
  5. NDC-5027
  6. Fd55e
  7. Data recording - from 'Single Density' to 'High Density'
  8. Hbasic
  9. Single sided, double sided, flippy disk
  10. Source code found on old 8 inch floppy disks (1978/79)
  11. Unidos
  12. My CompatiCard PC (286 AT)
  13. WD1002S-WX2
  14. Disk drive speed (RPM)
  15. BASF 6106 (Siemens)
  16. WD1002S-WX2A
  17. KOUWELL KR-513A
  18. CTT Munich, IT-803
  19. Information about the Mitsubishi M4854-342M
  20. TEAC FD-55F running under PC/MS-DOS?
  21. East meets West - DDR (GDR) DIP RAM in IBM PC

2018 5

  1. How do I transfer files from a modern computer to an old computer?
  2. IBM 256KB MEMORY CARD
  3. Running CP/M-86 on an IBM PC
  4. Word 5.5 *.txt file
  5. IBM 5150

Undated 1

  1. The blown capacitor