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Wondering if anyone else does this or has any ideas on how it should be done: Every 4 months or so, I spend a saturday 'making the rounds' of turning on and using each vintage machine for 5-10 minutes or so. I take notes of anything that needs attention. But it's primarily to exercise the...

If anyone has one, I'd like to buy a copy, or at least use it to generate a system diskette for my machine. I'm refurbishing an Altair 8800B that has a Micropolis dual floppy system installed. -John

...Lots of corrupted files on disks that were sitting in a pile without sleeves for god knows how long. I had to actually blow the dust off the diskettes with an air blower. But I managed to scavenge enough files to boot Lifeboat CP/M and found ASM, LOAD, and version 0.93 of Wordstar. I typed...

Seems to drop chars @ 9600 (shows a grid character). 4800 and below work fine. I could use the auto XON/XOFF as a workaround but some software I use traps for various control chars and the VT starts running the program for me, jumping around between menus! Anybody know of any problem that...

I'm using an old 9600 baud modem with my KP-2/84 and MODEM7 and found the screen delay problem a hindrance @ 9600 baud. 1200 seems to work OK, though. I've heard MITE uses interrupts to help the situation. Is there a copy archived somewhere? It was made by Mycroft Labs. -J

Hello all, I've been collecting/repairing/upgrading old machines for years. Well... since about 1980 I'd say. Most people used to say "John, get rid of that old junk!" Now, I'm called a *la-dee-dah* "collector". Fancy name for a junkman. But I love my junk. Some junk I have lying around...