Sord Computer M68 System Disk - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

Lennart Noetzel · 14th Oct 2019, 6:27 pm

Hi!
Anyone could help me?
I need The System Disk form my old Sord Computer M68.
(SORD-OS,CP/M-68K,UCSD-Psystem)
I`ll pay.
Software for old Sord computer is hard to get.

Thanks!

SiriusHardware · 14th Oct 2019, 6:46 pm

Hello Lennart - can't help you directly - I realise you are in Germany, but given the U.S. origins of the SORD I would think someone in this USA-centric vintage computer forum would be able to help you:-

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php

Apologies if you have already been there and drawn a blank.

SiriusHardware · 14th Oct 2019, 6:53 pm

Actually, a search over there on 'Sord M68' brings up a ten year old post from Arjoll who is still a forum member here as well... so maybe we might be able to help after all?

electronicskip · 14th Oct 2019, 7:17 pm

You could try over at the Retrogamer forum.
It caters for all old computer users and I am positive ive seen members who own them there and post info.

Lennart Noetzel · 15th Oct 2019, 6:59 am

Thanks for the good suggestions,
I will do this.

arjoll · 15th Oct 2019, 8:33 pm

I have SORD FDOS and CP/M-68k for the M68, but not sure when I'll be able to fire up my working M68 to get them copied. I've never seen the P-System for the M68, although it was advertised as available.

If you haven't already, check https://www.sord.co.nz - the site is incomplete and wildly out of date, but there's info about my SORDs there!

arjoll · 15th Oct 2019, 8:37 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by SiriusHardware

given the U.S. origins of the SORD

They weren't US, they were Japanese, founded by Takayohi Shiina in 1970. They were quite successful until the mid-1980s when he got on the wrong side of some of the Japanese establishment (entrepreneurs were not highly regarded), eventually being bought out by Toshiba.

https://www.sord.co.nz/sord-richestorags.html

G6Tanuki · 15th Oct 2019, 8:53 pm

CP/M and its relatives were interesting - and problematic if only because of the way the base operating-system was written so as to make it really-easy to configure a vast slew of different peripherals such as floppy- and early hard-disks.

Different numbers of tracks/sectors, soft- or hard-formatted, single- or double-sided - back then there were loads of smallish disk-drive manufacturers all with their own preferred formats - and a similarly-small manufacturer of computers could get someone to write-up a P/M filestructure to handle them. Making life really difficult for those who - 40 years on - have to try and prepare a boot-disk!

SiriusHardware · 15th Oct 2019, 8:58 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by arjoll

Quote:

Originally Posted by SiriusHardware

given the U.S. origins of the SORD

They weren't US, they were Japanese, founded by Takayohi Shiina in 1970.

I stand corrected, for some reason I've always had it in my head that SORD were a U.S. Marque.

14th Oct 2019, 6:27 pm	#1
Lennart Noetzel Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 2	Sord Computer M68 System Disk Hi! Anyone could help me? I need The System Disk form my old Sord Computer M68. (SORD-OS,CP/M-68K,UCSD-Psystem) I`ll pay. Software for old Sord computer is hard to get. Thanks! Attached Thumbnails

14th Oct 2019, 6:46 pm	#2
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,548	Re: Sord Computer M68 System Disk Hello Lennart - can't help you directly - I realise you are in Germany, but given the U.S. origins of the SORD I would think someone in this USA-centric vintage computer forum would be able to help you:- http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php Apologies if you have already been there and drawn a blank.

14th Oct 2019, 6:53 pm	#3
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,548	Re: Sord Computer M68 System Disk Actually, a search over there on 'Sord M68' brings up a ten year old post from Arjoll who is still a forum member here as well... so maybe we might be able to help after all?

14th Oct 2019, 7:17 pm	#4
electronicskip Nonode Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Gloucester, Glos. UK. Posts: 2,150	Re: Sord Computer M68 System Disk You could try over at the Retrogamer forum. It caters for all old computer users and I am positive ive seen members who own them there and post info.

15th Oct 2019, 6:59 am	#5
Lennart Noetzel Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 2	Re: Sord Computer M68 System Disk Thanks for the good suggestions, I will do this.

15th Oct 2019, 8:33 pm	#6
arjoll Dekatron Join Date: May 2006 Location: Invercargill, New Zealand Posts: 3,455	Re: Sord Computer M68 System Disk I have SORD FDOS and CP/M-68k for the M68, but not sure when I'll be able to fire up my working M68 to get them copied. I've never seen the P-System for the M68, although it was advertised as available. If you haven't already, check https://www.sord.co.nz - the site is incomplete and wildly out of date, but there's info about my SORDs there!

15th Oct 2019, 8:53 pm	#8
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,996	Re: Sord Computer M68 System Disk CP/M and its relatives were interesting - and problematic if only because of the way the base operating-system was written so as to make it really-easy to configure a vast slew of different peripherals such as floppy- and early hard-disks. Different numbers of tracks/sectors, soft- or hard-formatted, single- or double-sided - back then there were loads of smallish disk-drive manufacturers all with their own preferred formats - and a similarly-small manufacturer of computers could get someone to write-up a P/M filestructure to handle them. Making life really difficult for those who - 40 years on - have to try and prepare a boot-disk!