Back in the old days (1988?) my office used a DOS program called "Read CP/M" to copy Kaypro II CP/M disks to DOS. As I recall, the program was loaded into memory on the DOS machine and allowed you to do a straight copy at the DOS level from drive A to drive B (or C, of course). I haven't seen this program for a decade and can't raise it on Google. But maybe my anecdote will refresh somebody's memory and they'll be able to pull it out of their closet. --Jack > Need some advice aimed at the semicyberliterate: > My late father left his memoirs on 5.5-inch floppies written in wordstar > on KYPRO II in the days of CPM. > I work in XYWin on a Win98 desktop or on a Win95 Canon Notejet > laptop/printer. > Having those old disks converted is likly costly at best. > I have a chance to buy for next to nothing an old Kaypro II and a > companion Kaypro 10 and gobs of software and manuals. Both machines boot, > the seller tells me. I would be buying ONLY for this purpose. And a minor > fringe benefit of being able to read some of my own leftover disks done on > a Kaypro II back in the mid-80s. |