madd@world.std.com (jim frost) (10/25/89)
In article <233@flash.UUCP> bill@flash.UUCP (William Swan) writes: |If anyone has handy information about the serial port of the Kaypro II, |I would be interested in getting same. I will soon be wiring a cable |between my mother's Kaypro and my CP/M system in order to transfer some |software to her machine, and for once I would like to spend less than |a day getting the correct combination of handshake signals established. I have the technical manual for the whole kaypro line as of about two years ago, so I can send you specs if you like. I don't remember anything in the manual other than pinouts and circuitry, however. Mostly it is a "if this happens, replace the motherboard" document. BTW, you can get this book from Kaypro but it'll take some arm-twisting to do it. Along a similar line, does anyone know where I can find information about the Kaypro II ('83? the pre-'84 model) hardware? I really want to implement a terminal emulator and possibly my own small OS, but currently have little knowledge of the Z80 and the Kaypro hardware. Given that I have the little beastie and it's not doing much now except running my address program, I figure I ought to use it for something. If the thing has some kind of timer interrupt I'd love to make a multitasking OS for it. If anyone has any information on C compilers, commercial or otherwise, which run on the Kaypro, I'd like leads on them too. Thanks for any help, jim frost madd@std.com