Replying to a message of Mike O'Connor to All:

 MO> On 2010-04-23 00:01 (AEST), os2hardwarel{at}ftn.wpusa.dynip.com
 MO> wrote:
 MO>>>  Me too - was that with CP/M or CP/M II?
 >> 
 >> CP/M v 2.2 is the version I had - still have FTM, and the
 >> machines to run it. Never heard of CP/M II, unless you're
 >> referring to CP/M-86 - parts of which were swiped and
 >> included in MS/PC-DOS v 1.0 without permission of
 >> attribution.     
 MO> Hi Bob,

 MO> Yes I was referring to CP/M V2.2, not the 8086 version by
 MO> DRI - yes well  aware of the downgrade that was MS-DOS,even
 MO> relative to CP/M 2.2 let  alone CP/M-86! My CP/M 2.2 system
 MO> was put to rest in 1995, after he boot PROM on it  failed -
 MO> could still access the machine via the Monitor function in 
 MO> hardware, and key in enough (0x0400 bytes) in hex, a nibble
 MO> at a time to  set up the RST code and my table driven
 MO> interrupts and the RS232C  drivers to get it booted via my
 MO> 8086 Japanese system, until I had  transferred across all
 MO> the assembler programs I had written and which  were only
 MO> stored on non-IBM-compatible diskettes!

I think the PROM in my Heathkit H-89 has died but I haven't checked it
for several years.  My NorthStar Horizon is hard wired to boot from the
floppy controller, drive 0, side 0, track 0.  It'll try to boot from whatever it
finds there.

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