CompuPro Disk3

CompuPro Disk3

CompuPro Disk3 MFM Hard drive controllers. I can't remember which one was mine from back in the day, I ran a BBS on a couple 8" DSDD Floppy disks. I picked up another Disk3 along the way. This page will hopefully document me getting an old MFM drive booting CP/M. Probably a Quantum Q540. Both controllers appear functional

194D

Note the engineering changes on the backside. See the wires?

194G

Files

I was able to fire these, File:Compupro.zip, up in a simulator, Altair 8800 (Z80) simulator V3.8-1 build 1296, Lot's of different CompuPro operating systems architectures and versions. I was able to boot up CP/M-80 version Q. Wish I could remember where I downloaded this, I like to give credit. Drop me a note if you find or have seen it elsewhere.

Maslin CompuPro files archives [located here]

Hardware boot

On 8/11/2015 I got Disk3 access on a Quantum Q540

CompuPro Systems CP/M 2.2Q Disk Loader 

Can't open BIOS.COM 
What BIOS*.COM do you want to read?  test 
Loading BIOSTEST.COM 


CompuPro 64K CP/M 2.2Q (85/88) 
Copyright (c) 1985 VIASYN Corporation 

Disk3/Q540 as A: B: C: D: E: F: 

8" DISK1A as I: J: 

0 M-Drive/H as drive M: 


Hard disk unit 0 not formatted properly. 

SUBMIT? 

A> 
A>dir 
A: SWEEP    COM 
A>dir i: 
I: MEX      COM : MEX      HLP : MEX      LIB : NULL     MEX 
I: SURVEY   COM : WM       COM : WS       COM : WSMSGS   OVR 
[...] 

A>i:stat 
A: R/W, Space: 5092k 
I: R/W, Space: 382k 


A>