I've had a breakthrough in preparing Kaypro 4 CP/M diskettes. In the end it was much simpler than I imagined it would be.

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The key was in getting an MS-DOS system running with a free 5 1/4" floppy drive. Up till now, all I've been able to do was boot MS-DOS 6.22 from floppy, which left no space to run the disk conversion programs, or to store the CP/M images I want to copy.

But last night I found a bootableDOS 6.22 iso file and burned it onto a CD. When booted, this thing found my IDE hard drive and installed DOS and all its extensions on the hard drive, including the CD-ROM device drivers.

So now I have a DOS system running off the hard drive, with a CD-ROm drive and a free floppy. Just before I went to bed, I used this system and the free version of 22disk to read the directory off one of my Kaypro disks, which worked fine, and to format a Kaypro floppy, which also worked fine.

Tonight I plan to create a set of vedit disks, and a set of Aztec C disks.

And I have a lot more to do. There's Turbo Pascal, Pascal MT+, MASM, and lots of others.