[vcf-midatlantic] MS-DOS 1.25 software/Gazelle
william degnan
billdegnan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 21:20:51 EST 2017
I don't have a Gazelle. I have an MS DOS 1.25 for my Compupro 8/16 but I
never got it to work correctly. I do have some DOS 1 era software from a
regular IBM PC on 5 1/4", but I am unsure if it's Gazelle compatible.
There are BIOS issues.
Bill
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> Bill –
>
> If you’re talking about Perfect Writer, I actually made an 8” disk
> from the one on Bitsavers (maybe you provided the original copy?). I posted
> the process I used on my Web site, but basically I setup an old PC/AT as an
> imaging machine so that I could make and reproduce 8” disks and images. I
> was wondering if there was any other software for the Gazelle that might be
> interesting to use.
>
> Rich
>
> --
> Rich Cini
> http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
> http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
>
>
> On 11/10/17, 9:26 PM, "vcf-midatlantic on behalf of william degnan via
> vcf-midatlantic" <vcf-midatlantic-bounces at lists.
> vintagecomputerfederation.org on behalf of vcf-midatlantic at lists.
> vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> I might have a copy on disk, I will check. 5 1/4 or 8"?
>
> Bill Degnan
> twitter: billdeg
> vintagecomputer.net
> On Nov 10, 2017 9:13 PM, "Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic" <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> > All –
> >
> >
> >
> > One of my recent projects was to build a Seattle
> Gazelle
> > replica based on the unit in the VFC collection. While doing this, I
> got to
> > wondering about software for it.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Bitsavers, there is a program disk called “Perfect Writer”, a word
> > processing program. Video is character-based, and the system doesn’t
> have a
> > PC-compatible BIOS, so even though it runs MS-DOS, it can’t be that
> > compatible. I have not seen the mention of a video board for the
> Gazelle,
> > but I found the CompuPro PC-Video (a PC-compatible MC6845-based
> video board
> > for the S100).
> >
> >
> >
> > If anyone has any info on this aspect of the history of the Gazelle,
> I’d
> > appreciate it. Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Rich Cini
> >
> > http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
> >
> > http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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