Hi everyone, just saw one of these in a thrift last night and talked myself out of buying it on the spot. So now I'm looking around for reasons to go back for it LOL. Real cute shape, keyboard sucks though. Don't have a very firm idea in mind for use, would be cool with Arduino/ESP8266 CP/M emulator in. Or a "real thing" modernised Z80 mini CP/M board should fit. On the other hand those starburst LEDs have a bit of charm of their own, so would be kinda cool just having it streaming current weather conditions or something. I'd be more persuaded if the stock keyboard was at least qwerty, or if I could think of a capable more period-ish display for it. It's real easy just to jam a used android behind the bezel and slap a bluetooth keyboard on and call it a hack. I'm wondering where the hell I'd get like a 5" mono orange plasma dot matrix or something.

I like this idea, it's such a neat little case.  I can see a Pi and LCD fitting in there just fine and a mini keyboard fitted into that space.    I'm tempted to look for a similar toy computer for the case to do something similar.  The Kaypro ran CP/M - I recommend looking at RunCPM by Marcelo Dantas, I use it on the Arduino CP/M computer project I did.  You won't need complex floppy disk images, you can just put all the programs and data you want onto the SD card in the drive's native format, using directories to represent the CP/M drives and User spaces.

In highschool I used to do this with 3" - 5" mini TVs from goodwill. I got pretty close to a working system but I had some issues and never fully finished anything.

It will be really interesting to see the circuitry inside.  I wonder what the feasibility is of interfacing through the cartridge port.  I saw some youtubes of it running; it seems like /maybe/ a TI chip.  It sounds like a speak-n-spell synth.

Good find, I don't remember that Computron at all. That Kaypro is in really nice shape - is that a museum piece? I notice the Lear Siegler terminal next to it too.

Both the Kaypro and ADM-3A are mine. :) The Kaypro's serial number is pretty early, and the original/previous owner barely used it and even still had the receipt!

great idea

Thanks!

aww, that's cute!

Thanks!