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Microsoft Cobol-80 Disk and Manual for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 25-10-2024
Thanks to MbeeTech for making this disk available to be imaged. A normal Microbee 5.25" DS40 disk, non-bootable and no copy protection which imaged 100% error free.
From the manual :-
Microsoft's COBOL-80, which runs on the 8080/Z-80/8085, brings the
world's most widely used computer programming language to the microcomputer
user. COBOL-80 is comparable to COBOL systems found on minicomputers
and large mainframes. Consequently, it greatly enhances the usefulness
of microcomputers because it gives users access to the incredibly
large number of programs already written in COBOL. Because COBOL-80 is a
standard, COBOL programs written on other computers may be run easily on
8080, Z-80 or 8085 systems.
This is Microsoft Cobol-80 version 4.01 and dated 30 Sept 1980. There are many copies of this across the internet but none are on Microbee disks ready to use, until now.
A manual was evenually found on the internet for this version which was cleaned up, de-skewed, ocr'ed and converted to a normal seachable PDF. Its 170 pages long and is made of 3 distinct manuals, being :
1. COBOL-80 REFERENCE MANUAL
provides extensive descriptions of COBOL-80's statements, syntax and organization.
2. COBOL-80 USER'S MANUAL
describes the COBOL-80 compiler commands, file handling and error messages.
3. MICROSOFT UTILITY SOFTWARE MANUAL
describes the use of the MACRO-80 Assembler, LINK-80 Linking Loader and LIB-80
Library Manager with the COBOL-80 compiler.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Languages folder we placed
microsoft_cobol-80_ds40.dsk
microsoft_cobol-80_manual.pdf <-- in the Documentation\Manuals\Software folder