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  - Many interesting documents (e.g. PDF) can be found at bitsavers.org
    07/31/08
    Many of you already know that there is a gold mine for old (often scanned) documents at www.bitsavers.org , users and service manuals and other technical documents as well.
    If not, try it (see reated link below), it's amazing what can be found there !!!
  - Back from holidays, a Philips P2012 with a CoPower card is waiting...
    07/29/08
    I was really happy getting back from holidays and finding a big package in my house corridor - a Philips P2012 equipped with a CoPower 8088 card, which make it possible to run not only Z80 based CP/M 2.2 but also MS-DOS 2.11 on the coprocessor card (THANKS TO
    TON SCHLUTER HERE AGAIN !).
    In
  - TCP/IP stack for CP/M based systems ?
    07/25/08
    Following the discussions about a possible implementation in comp.os.cpm, I asked myself for what reason would this a goal ?
    
    On http://www.cpm.z80.de/randyfiles/DRI/cpm-tcp.zip an early try is ready for download, but it's made for a Xerox 820, nowadays a real rare computer.
  - A 2nd CP/M-86 software repository mirror already exist
    07/18/08
    There is already a second mirror ... at http://z80cpu.eu/mirrors/klaw/
    
    Somebody named "Katzy" wrote this in comp.os.cpm, thanks.
    
    So at the moment there is no need for an additional mirror, I guess.
  - A bit concerned about the CP/M-86 software repository (Kirk Lawrence's heritage)
    07/15/08
    At the moment http://www.nostalgia8.nl/mirrors/cpm86/ is a mirror from the old seanet/~klaw CP/M-86 site, and that's good. Unfortunately I have seen many web pages already gone into the black hole of the internet, and using www.archive.org is not always the solution, because very often the bina
  - Have decided to use a blog also...
    07/14/08
    Yes, I always was a bit displeased about blogs. But I guess it's one form to get a feedback, and in the other hand also to drop some infos or ideas without using again and again a web editor or a content management system. So I will use it until it will get me stressed ;-)