Uniform

Initial Release

To help curb the incompatibility problems which plague today's personal computers, the producers of the Kaypro computer -- America's fastest-selling portable personal computer line -- have introduced new software that allows Kaypro computers to read and write disks in the formats of the Osborne I (single and double-density), the Xerox 820 and 820 II, and the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1.

According to David Kay, vice-president of Non-Linear Systems, Inc., all new machines will be packaged with two new programs, called UniForm, which are incorporated onto the system's CP/M S-Basic diskette. The UniForm programs are licensed to Kaypro under copyright from Micro Solutions, Inc., DeKalb, IL.

Uniform is a pair of programs, SETDISK and INITDISK, which allows Kaypro users to transfer files from the above named Osborne, Xerox and TRS-80 machines on Kaypro machines, or to permit Kaypro files to be used by machines produced by other manufacturers.

Of Uniform's two programs, the first -- called INITDISK, allows the user to "initialize", or change, a disk to any of the supported formats.
("Kaypro Achieves System Compatibility by Introducing Programs to Read, Write Xerox, Osborne, Radio Shack TRS-80 Files" Press Release, June 1983)