rxxqva@minyos.xx.rmit.oz (Quentin van Abbe) (04/09/90)
I presently maintain for an outside group an aged EXIDY Sorcerer running CPM2.2.
I would like to transfer software back and forth via a DOS machine, but try as
I may I cannot read my CPM disks on the PC. I've used SYDEX's ANADISK and
disc copy routines, but neither analysis nor copy works. Nor do any of the other
copy or analyse routines I've been able to locate. Not being in any
sense a CPM guru, I seek advice from some whizz out there who may have had
experience with a similar m/c. An alternative, of course, would be a simple
cable set-up to provide a serial link between the two m/cs, or modem access.
One problem is an acute shortage of documentation about the m/c, so everything
I do is guesswork. Any help gratefully received. If you wish to email me, my
address, mailers willing, is rxxqva@skaro.xx.rmit.oz.au.
Quentin van Abbe.
(my opinions are my own - I certainly would not trust me to represent
anyone else's!)donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin) (04/15/90)
I think what you need is SYDEX 22DSK which permits reading 'foreign' formats
into DOS. ANADISK does not have that capability as I recall. UNIFORM is
another possibility, but I don't know that it covers the EXIDY format or not.
The null modem is the final fallback if you have a communications program for
the EXIDY.
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