Mike Douglas has a bunch of North Star utilities that you can use to "bare metal bootstrap" disks:
http://deramp.com/northstar.html Unless you have a stockpile of hard-sector disks, you probably also want his Virtual Sector Generator board: http://deramp.com/vsg.html Thanks, Jonathan On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:16 PM, dwight via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking someone has already done this. If no, as you say, it is not > an impossible task. > > The TSS/B is suppose to be their scientific package. It at least has BASIC > in it. I have another disk marked CP/M in the same box. I should be able to > put something together under CP/M. > > It is a North Star Horizon. There seems to be some images out there so I > don't know how they are being captured. > > Dwight > > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <[email protected]> on behalf of Fred Cisin via > cctalk <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 3:27:09 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Looking for North star software > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, dwight via cctalk wrote: > > I have a machine that I'm just now bringing up. I have some boot > > software but it is TSS/A that is the accounting multi-user package. I'd > > really like the TSS/B floppies instead. I'd settle for images. > > Sounds like fun! > > What model Northstar? > > Once you get some images, have you worked out a way to get the images onto > hard-sector disks? > > AFTER you boot the machine, with some minimal programs, you can transfer > data into the machine through serial port. >
