Well, today I decided to repair the power supply on the Percom floppy that I have for
my pair of Model I's. Then, I decided to see if a complete keyboard-EI-floppy setup
worked. Therein lies the problem...
It seems like each CPU (a 4k and a 16k Level II) won't recognize either EI (a Rev
0 and Rev 1). Both EI's have 32k of RAM. All that I get on the screen is garbage.
I'm turing the EI on first, then the CPU. I've also tried two types of EI cables,
one buffered and one not. I can tell which cable goes to which EI because the floppy drive
will initialize only with the right combo.
It sounds like I have two bad EI's, but the thing that throws me is that the
floppy interface performs a floppy reset.
Does anyone have any clue?? Also, how does one refer to the floppy drive in a BASIC
statement? For example, if I want to load a program, do I type LOAD
"0:test.bas"? I have no manuals for these machines, and it's been a loooong
time since I used one of these.
Also, on an unrelated note, the Altair scans are in, but I'm waiting for Bill
Whitson's address so that I can Fedex a tape to him. Does anyone have it??
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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