A New Kaypro

Tom M. — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:25:00 GMT

After telling myself over and over that I have too much computing equipment, I did the unthinkable, though probably inevitable: I bought an old computer.

It was on eBay for a pretty good price, and is apparently in good working condition - a Kaypro 4 from the very early 1980s. This is a 64KB Z80 powered machine with a pair of single sided 5 1/4" floppies running CP/M 2.2. It comes with all the original software on floppy, and I hope with the original manual set.

This is one of those machines that I could not afford when it was new and I was poor, but that I dreamed of owning someday. Before I could afford machines of this class, they were already gone, and I ended up with a Zenith Z-248 that I bought at DoD contract pricing.

My plan is to do whatever is necessary to get it back in perfect condition and then just play with it. Maybe I'll install a BBS, maybe I'll do some assembler or pascal development.

I'll post pictures and restor

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Tom M. — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:45:00 GMT

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