[vcf-midatlantic] The Eagle has landed

[Andrew Molloy]

Congrats on the find. This reminded me of the tragic demise of the Eagle
president just after they went public.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triumph-then-death-in-a-ferrari.html

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

>
>    I recently acquired an Eagle IIE-2 CP/M computer, along with a binder
> containing manuals and diskettes for Spellbinder 2.30 and Ultracalc 2.0:
>
> http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Eagle/
>
>    The Eagle has single-sided, 80 track (96tpi) drives.  It was missing
> the the CP/M / CBASIC disk, and I was able to create one from an image in
> Don Maslin's archive.  The image was in Teledisk format (TD0), originally
> read on a quad-density 96tpi drive at 250kpbs.  I used the TD02IMD utility
> to convert it to an IMD image, then used IMD with the data rate set to
> translate from 250kpbs to 300kpbs to write the image on a 1.2MB HD drive.
> Works fine.
>
>
> Mike Loewen                             mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
> Old Technology                          http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
>