17-06-2021, 01:06 PM
Thanks to kimjohn for making this disk available to be imaged. It was a standard Microbee DS40 5.25" disk, bootable and with no copy protection that imaged 100% error free.
This is the Microsoft Master disk as sold by Microbee as part of the software for their 128k Small Business Computer and dated Jan 1986. It contains 2 version of Microsoft basic, these being MBASIC (Rev 5.21 dated 28-Jul-81) and OBASIC (Rev 4.51 dated 1977). Also included on the disk is their spreadsheet program MULTIPLAN, version 1.06 dated 1981. The INSTALL program for Multiplan is also included on the disk but as it has already been installed for the Microbee, its not really needed.
We have the Microbee manuals for both MBASIC and MULTIPLAN in the Repository already, in the Documentation\Manuals\Software folder. These are both great reference manuals and are really needed to help with the full programming and running of these programs.
There were other disks from kimjohn but these we already have but the disks had different label so these were also scanned and added here. Interesting that the Sketch Pad disk says "Partial protect disk" and has a different catalogue number, while the other disks we have says "File Protected disk".
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Applications folder we placed
microsoft_master_ds40.dsk
128k_microsoft_master_t2.jpg <--- in the Documentation\Pictures\Disks\5.25_inch folder
128k_microworld_master.jpg
128k_utility_master_t2.jpg
disk_catalogue_t2.jpg
edasm_t2.jpg
sketch_pad_t2.jpg
This is the Microsoft Master disk as sold by Microbee as part of the software for their 128k Small Business Computer and dated Jan 1986. It contains 2 version of Microsoft basic, these being MBASIC (Rev 5.21 dated 28-Jul-81) and OBASIC (Rev 4.51 dated 1977). Also included on the disk is their spreadsheet program MULTIPLAN, version 1.06 dated 1981. The INSTALL program for Multiplan is also included on the disk but as it has already been installed for the Microbee, its not really needed.
We have the Microbee manuals for both MBASIC and MULTIPLAN in the Repository already, in the Documentation\Manuals\Software folder. These are both great reference manuals and are really needed to help with the full programming and running of these programs.
There were other disks from kimjohn but these we already have but the disks had different label so these were also scanned and added here. Interesting that the Sketch Pad disk says "Partial protect disk" and has a different catalogue number, while the other disks we have says "File Protected disk".
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Applications folder we placed
microsoft_master_ds40.dsk
128k_microsoft_master_t2.jpg <--- in the Documentation\Pictures\Disks\5.25_inch folder
128k_microworld_master.jpg
128k_utility_master_t2.jpg
disk_catalogue_t2.jpg
edasm_t2.jpg
sketch_pad_t2.jpg
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