dig deep into your memory, CP/M

ok so I recently found an Osborne-1 "portable" (aka luggable) computer and I was wanting to poke around and kinda.....do old computer stuff with it before I take it up north and see if some one wanted to make a trade with me at PRGE (usually an old computer vendor up there at the con). problem is I don't have any CP/M discs. my memory of CP/M is spotty any way, I think I was 5 when I used it last and then dos and quickly windows 3.0

but any way does any one know if there is a free ware version that is, and I stress....

Z80 4Mhz compatible with 64k of ram and 92k floppy

I guess beefier versions of CP/M can over stress and kill these things, its a fanless design....designed in the late 70's and released in the early 80s
i'm fairly certain if I can find it I can download it and then transfer back in time on a cd-rw to a win 98 machine or 95 machine and get it onto a 5 inch floppy

Sounds like fun, see if thee's anything useful here: http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/

Check out The Unofficial CP/M Website http://www.cpm.z80.de/

Hey, it has a serial connection right? is there no way to get a USB/DB-9 cable, connect that way, and do a build via a current system somehow?

Go here, scroll down, and you will see the Osborne files

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/system.htm

ihrsetrdr said:

Sounds like fun, see if thee's anything useful here: http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/

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LOL didnt see you had already posted that site.
Oh well.

oh hella sweet I couldn't find any thing like this earlier but I was also using my phone to look it up.
all I could find were CP/M commands

thanks guys i'll get some images downloaded and dig out a win 98 or win 95 machine tommorow with a 5 inch floppy and see what I can get going

edit:
thinking about it, if I had a PCI floppy controller do you think I could get a 5 inch drive working in win 10?

hrmmmm

Not sure if this still works as far as a company, but.......there WAS a guy who made a USB adapter, to take an old 5.25 floppy, and convert to USB.
theres a page about it
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2503

Would love to see updates on the osborne xD

well sadly all my old old old, under 128k floppys were dead, they wouldn't hold any data, showed tracks and sectors but I would format and write and nothing would be there. also the weren't write protected
I was going to Portland retro gaming expo that's why I didn't have much info for you guys. no access to a real computer

I did find some one who was very interested in it up there so I sold it to him, he was an Atari 8 bit computer guy but this boggled his mind so I sold it to him for $50
I have a pic of it I can upload after I unpack my haul

edit:
pic



kinda sad I don't have it but even still it went to a better, enthusiasts, home. and more than likely i'll find another.

I seem to have a knack for finding old, rare retro hardware and games super cheap.
if it makes you feel any better I did sell a boxed complete version of Conkers Bad Fur Day for N64 at the same convention for $90 to a different vendor that I found at the same store about 2 years ago and bought for $4

i'm not a reseller but when things run their course...

Conker is the baddest-@$$ squirrel that ever flew on his tail. Or drank excessively.

What's funny is I bought that game 3 times, twice for N64 and once for Xbox, and never paid more than $10. If only I had a copy of that game still.