> On Jan 11, 2024, at 10:46 AM, Scott Joyce <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently acquired a TDPP1 drive and just purchased a cable but am now > finding I need the Utility/Boot disk. I would appreciate any help in getting > a copy of the disk so I can get this little gem functioning properly again.
Congratulations on scoring the hardware! One option for getting the disk you want is to make one using pdd.sh: https://github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh The repository contains the disk image, and the pdd.sh utility can write it to a blank disk using your drive connected to a PC. There are also other programs available that allow you to use the drive without the utility disk at all, such as TS-DOS or TEENSY. TS-DOS is capable of issuing a format command to the drive, enabling you to make usable disks to read and write with, and offers quite a lot more functionality than the programs on the utility disk. I don't remember if TEENSY can do disk formatting. Quite a few other "DOS" programs are out there.
