Waking of the Iron Dinosaur (Old Kaypro II Computer)
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Uploaded by DukeFilmsInc on Nov 23, 2009
I found this old ass kaypro when cleaning out the garage. It weighed a ton...or at least 50 pounds. It still turned on and a little green sentence came into view. It needs a boot floppy or something. I also found a ton of old floppies. Stupid piece of crap wouldnt turn on s I threw it back into the filth pit. Songs- Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult, Cut you up with a Linoleum Knife - Mastadon. DO NOT FLAG, PUBLIC DOMAIN!.
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It actually weighs 26 pounds. I had one of the first ones made in 1982 with serial number 129. Great little computer.
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You have a filth pit?
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Wow.... thats epic old I'm accually surprised that it turned on, then again peggy hills kaypro is still up and running XD.
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2:24 I cannot read your diskette
#LOL
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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
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This would be so much more bad ass if CP/M actually booted
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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.
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How about instead of killing it, just giving it to me?
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Kaypro is made from aluminum, not iron.
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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.
Oldkt 1 year ago
@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.
DukeFilmsInc 1 year ago
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 :)
mechuccio 2 years ago
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.
DukeFilmsInc 2 years ago