by TRS80 on Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:58 pm
Reading your reply again maybe I do understand and you are surprised with my guess re the manufacturer. My father had a number of MDL S-100 based systems at his work in the early 80's that ran CP/M 2.2 so I have seen a few although not really used them to any extent. If you look back in the History forum there is a previous thread re MDL <http://classic-computers.org.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9>
Unless you have something that will let you write 8" disks you may be better to try using a 1.2mb 5.25" drive (ex an AT type machine). If you can get that to boot then you can copy the OS over to an 8". There is some interesting reading on that at <http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#threefive>.
Have you been able to locate a version of CP/M with a BIOS for the California Computer Systems boards?
Regards
Andrew
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