Re: CP/M for Vector + more

Ah, different Vector; in the immortal words of Emily Litella: "Never mind..."

(For our non-American friends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Litella

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Naberezny" <mike@naberezny.com>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: CP/M for Vector + more


> On 5/31/17 1:41 AM, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
>> Busy imaging my disks I found a 8050 one with the header "CPM for Vector". It 
>> does ring a bell but I'm not sure. @Mike, could this be software for Z-RAM 
>> CP/M board I sent you?
> 
> Yes.  The Z-RAM board was known as "CP/Maker" in Europe and Vector was one of 
> the distributors.  I found a couple of advertisements and put them on this page:
> 
> http://mikenaberezny.com/hardware/pet-cbm/madison-computer-z-ram/
> 
>> I also found a disk with the title CPM4040, also on a 8050 disk (very 
>> confusing). Anyone?
> 
> Z-RAM disks can be identified by looking for a large REL file in the CBM DOS 
> directory.  It contains an image of the CP/M filesystem.
> 
> SoftBox disks store the CP/M filesystem directly in CBM DOS sectors.  These 
> disks may have two CBM DOS files in the directory, "K" and "CP/M", or may have 
> no CBM DOS files.  The directory will show most blocks as free when in fact 
> the sectors are full of CP/M data.
> 
> I'd like to look at these image files.  Could you please send them to me?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> -- 
> Mike Naberezny (mike@naberezny.com) http://6502.org
> 
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