LiqMatrix
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Id have to open mine to find out, but I think the 4/83 is very much similar to the kaypro II. My Kaypro 4 has an onboard modem (so the transformer sticks out at you when you open it) and the Battery for the RTC. Yours doesnt have that so it looks like a 4/83
Kaypros naming convention is awful, the kaypro II should be the kaypro I, the kaypro 4/83 should be called the kaypro II.. Its pretty confusing if you try and follow. someone did a video covering it on youtube.
So the video link I posted up above with the guy running Aliens in text mode... is that a newer model than mine and is that why he can run that game in text mode and I can't properly? I just want to make sure before I call this restore project complete that everything is in proper working order. Make sure there is nothing wrong with my motherboard or something like that. I could care less otherwise playing games on this thing as they are so primitive, fun is hard to be had out of them. LOL. Although I do like a game of Ladders, the Donkey Kong text mode clone.
I also had a VERY weird thing happen last night that I have never seen in my 40 years of tinkering with computers. I formatted a DSDD floppy disk as a SSDD disk in the 22DISK utility so I could dump a SSDD TD0 image onto the floppy using Teledisk. It worked fine, BUT here comes the really weird part. When I do a directory listing of the floppy in Drive B I see completely different files than when I do a directory listing on Drive A on the SAME disk!!!??? I may have had data on it previously as a DSDD formatted disk, but still... why in the heck would the two drives read it completely different???
If you want proof on this I can make a short video. Really strange, but I am thinking it has something to do with how I formatted the disk in DISK22. Any ideas or ever run across this weird behavior? Maybe the heads on the two drives are slightly aligned differently and reading the disk differently? Like data left over from when it was a DSDD? My brain hurts after farting around on the Kaypro all day.