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From: rzh@LLL-LCC.LLNL.GOV (Roger Hanscom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Kaypro II
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Date: 11 Jun 90 16:19:40 GMT
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Hello All --

A friend brought a Kaypro II by the house for repair.  It would not boot.
I got it going, but was surprised to discover that it has single-sided
drives (something around 190 K per drive).  This is the first time I've
ever touched a "real-live" Kaypro.  Can this be upgraded to DSDD??  A
DSDD Kaypro is not a bad machine, but this thing would seem to have limited
usefullness.  Anybody know if the ROM upgrades sold by MicroC/Emerald (were
they MicroCode??) will work on a machine like this??  I have applied their
upgrade to a Xerox 820-1, and really like it.  Is it worth thinking about
for this machine???

                      roger          rzh@lll-lcc.llnl.gov