Waking of the Iron Dinosaur (Old Kaypro II Computer)

[humblemex]

It actually weighs 26 pounds. I had one of the first ones made in 1982 with serial number 129. Great little computer.

[Todd82TA]

You have a filth pit?

[WarriorKiyo]

Wow.... thats epic old I'm accually surprised that it turned on, then again peggy hills kaypro is still up and running XD.

[MixerVM]

2:24 I cannot read your diskette

#LOL

[girlstorm09]

weird how THAT was consitered once "portable"....yikes thats heavier then todays desktop towers....imagine for the fun of it and reactions...taking one of those into a coffee shop :P

[atruewarrior377]

This would be so much more bad ass if CP/M actually booted

[Membrane556]

You can make a boot disk with imagedisk and 22disk on a PC under dos or win9x if you have a 5.25" drive.

A p4 or earlier era machine would be your best bet.

For a dos to boot into for making the boot disks try freedos.

After getting the machine up and running copy the boot disk to make a proper 40 track disk.

[16mmDJ]

How about instead of killing it, just giving it to me?

[tiberianfiend]

Kaypro is made from aluminum, not iron.

[Oldkt]

Haha I was wondering, could you or someone please tell me where I could get those ibm human physiology floppy disks? My dad had one of those disks back in teh day when he studied biology in college on his old ibm computer. They seem very rare but it would be awesome if I could find some.

[DukeFilmsInc]

@Oldkt Yeah, back when my high school was still around I got em for free from the computer lab. They switched everything over to those 3.5 floppys and they gave these to me for free. I dont really need them anymore since I have a lot more floppys if you PM me your address I'll dig em' out of the closet and mail them to you, have a nice day.

[macupgrader]

In the words of Sean Connery in The Rock; "Personally, I think your a fucking idiot"

[drbpony]

Reminds me of when I forcefully tried to format a DS-HD floppy in a Commodore 64. It was like trying to feed carrots to a cat.

[linuxlove4004]

You heard of The Vintage Computer Forums? They can get you a boot disk for that KayPro.

[joshblaize]

The reason why the computer would not boot up one of your disks, is because the Kaypro is not compatible to IBM software.

Your disks seem to have IBM software on it.

You need a bootable disk, that has Kaypro software on it.

Be sure that the disk for the Kaypro format has the CP/M DOS program, that can boot the disk.

Kaypro is also not compatible to Commodore, or other different company brand computers.

Kaypro will only read Kaypro software.

[mechuccio]

Wow dude, thats great!

If you like, send me a message with you adress, I'll copy the CP/M disk and send it to you!

[mechuccio]

Dude, you should look for a CP/M disc, that's the OS these Kaypro's run on.

If you don't have that it's never going to do any more than nagging about a diskette.

But this machine looks very good! Don't let it go to waste, sell it on ebay, there are enough enthousiast for these oldies!

Anyway thanks for the vid. Nice to see how these dinosaurs still work! I've had numerous computers that couldn't even survive two years of barely working :)

[DukeFilmsInc]

I had a start up disk but over the years it crapped out on me. And yes the computer is almost mint condition. I have the original box it came in and the original warranty reciepts.