jjj@wonderwoman.hut.fi (Joni Jaakko J{rvenkyl{) (02/01/91)
I saw a Kaypro 10 first time for 6 years ago, and now I finally managed to buy myself one. Wow is this great! It's goit the standard 10 MB half height HDD installed. Is there any possibility for adding a second 10 MB disk drive, or possibly even one of greater capacity? The controller board seems to have one free data/controller cable connector. Is there any possibility to speed the whole machine up a little, f ex changing the crystal to a bigger one (if this help at all)? Is there a VT100 emulator program which would work at 9600 or 19200 bps? If I wanted hardware flow control too, am I completely out of Kaypro's capabilities/the software done this far? -- jjj@niksula.hut.fi jjj@otax.tky.hut.fi fire me, fire until you die
MARC.NEWMAN@f601.n106.z1.fidonet.org (MARC NEWMAN) (02/03/91)
The Advent and several other replacement ROMs allow you to use very large hard drives, up to 120 megs or so. I have a 10 meg that came in my K10 and a Microscience HH-1090 80 meg (of which I get 56 megs due to a limitation in the Advent rom). Most people I talk with think the Advent rom is the best. They have gone out of business, but Jay Sage (who might just be listening here ;-) is supposed to be getting set up to sell them for Bridger Mitchell. marc
ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) (02/04/91)
MARC.NEWMAN@f601.n106.z1.fidonet.org (MARC NEWMAN) writes: > The Advent and several other replacement ROMs allow you to use very large > hard drives, up to 120 megs or so. I have a 10 meg that came in my K10 > and a Microscience HH-1090 80 meg (of which I get 56 megs due to a > limitation in the Advent rom). > > Most people I talk with think the Advent rom is the best. They have gone > out of business, but Jay Sage (who might just be listening here ;-) is > supposed to be getting set up to sell them for Bridger Mitchell. > > marc A local friend of mine, Chuck Stafford, bought Advent out lock stock and barrel. You can get information about Advent products from him by calling (916) 483-0312. Tell him that Ian Justman sent ya.
roadhog@austex (Lindsay Haisley) (02/07/91)
jjj@wonderwoman.hut.fi (Joni Jaakko J{rvenkyl{) writes: > I saw a Kaypro 10 first time for 6 years ago, and now I finally managed to > buy myself one. Wow is this great! > > It's goit the standard 10 MB half height HDD installed. Is there any > possibility for adding a second 10 MB disk drive, or possibly even one of > greater capacity? The controller board seems to have one free > data/controller cable connector. > The K-10 native ROM will only support one hd of 10 megs. If you replace the native Kaypro ROM with a TurboROM, you can use up to two hard drives of 56 mb each. > Is there any possibility to speed the whole machine up a little, f ex > changing the crystal to a bigger one (if this help at all)? > I have heard of people doing this, but be careful. Too much speed and the whole thing goes to lunch! > Is there a VT100 emulator program which would work at 9600 or 19200 bps? If > I wanted hardware flow control too, am I completely out of Kaypro's > capabilities/the software done this far? > The Kaypro video is notoriously slow, and you must be careful with any software which must wait for the K-10's video to update the screen. I have to set 9 nulls for screen captures from remotes RAS's on my K-10 or I lose characters. At the risk of sounding like a commercial, I'll repeat again that the current source for the Kaypro TurboROM is Sage Microsystems East. The BBS number there is 617-965-7259, vox 617-965-3552. Send snail-mail to Jay Sage, Sage Microsystems East, 1435 Centre St., Newton Centre, MA 02159-2469. BBS password is DDT. I have 2 K-10's in the house, both of which have TurboROMs and I'm very happy with the system improvements they provide. "Everything works if you let it!" --- Travis J. Redfish +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ uucp: austex!roadhog@emx.utexas.edu OR roadhog%austex.uucp@emx.utexas.edu BBS: (512) 259-1261 (Z-Node 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)