Walking my dog earlier this week, what do I see but an old KAYPRO II sitting out for trash pickup. Being a university professor that teaches computers and a computer history buff I just couldn’t resist picking it up.
After drying out the keyboard, evicting an ant colony trying to set up housekeeping and checking it out thoroughly, I plugged it in, and what do you know, it came on an asked me to insert a disk.
Now starting to look for boot disk images (below are some hot leads):
Blog on various restoration efforts
Dave’s Old Computers (read this first then go on to the Disk Images)
The Vintage Computer (thread on creating boot disks)
Kaypro II disks (made with teledisk)
I really should start my own computer museum. I still own a Toshiba T1000 laptop computer (XT compatible) and a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (the first laptop computer) and now the KAYPRO. Too bad my 286 and 486 machines died a few years back 🙁