17 Jul
2010
17 Jul
'10
11:51 a.m.
Philip, do yourself a favor. Use a digital camera. I own a smallish unit, believe it or
not the name escapes me at the moment, and it delivers totally readable snaps of whatever
I intend to archive. It's more then adequate. If you attempt to scan something, well,
it might never happen. And you'll tare whatever you're trying to scan to hell.
Canon coolpix or something. I think that's it.
It's better to have something *out there*, then nothing at all. I'm not
apologizing for the quality of the stills. Hell my first attempt at archiving material was
5 or 6 years ago using an Aiptek pencam (1.2 megapix allegedly, and a *real* glass lense,
that I needed to rotate by hand to get the proper focus incidentally). I was flabbergasted
at the quality of the results on the very first try using that hunk of crap.
--- On Fri, 7/16/10, Philip Belben <philip at axeside.co.uk> wrote:
From: Philip Belben <philip at axeside.co.uk>
Subject: Re: regarding Datamaster's and such
To: "On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, July 16, 2010, 1:10 PM
I've just been catching up on
Classiccmp, and I found this discussion.
I'd never heard of a 5324 before either, but from the
number I guessed it was a System/23 (my Datamaster is a
5322).
I have the 5322 service manual.? It's not particularly
useful, but you may find it of benefit.? If you'd like
it I'll try and scan it at work next week.
So, is the basic in ROM? Do I have to have a
system
disk to get this thing to work?
Yes, BASIC is in ROM.? Quite a big basic - I think
there's about 128K of ROM in this beast!
IIRC you don't need a system disk.? But it fails power
on diagnostics if the printer isn't plugged into it and
switched on.
HTH
Philip.