{"id":875,"date":"2009-08-07T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=875"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:58:05","slug":"kaypro-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/08\/07\/kaypro-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"KAYPRO II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

\"kaypro_2-83_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

KAYPRO II Specs<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Now starting to look for boot disk images (below are some hot leads):<\/p>\n

Blog on various restoration efforts<\/a><\/p>\n

KAYPRO Downloads<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave’s Old Computers<\/a> (read this first then go on to the Disk Images<\/a>)<\/p>\n

KAYPRO II CPM Manual<\/a><\/p>\n

The Vintage Computer (thread on creating boot disks)<\/a><\/p>\n

teledisk<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaypro II disks<\/a> (made with teledisk)<\/p>\n

Useful Old PC Software<\/a><\/p>\n

I really should start my own computer museum. I still own a Toshiba T1000<\/a> laptop computer (XT compatible) and a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100<\/a> (the first laptop computer) and now the KAYPRO. Too bad my 286 and 486 machines died a few years back \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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