Hello.
I have two similar Data General One, one with fixed disk, the other is
the two-floppy version.
Both came with no manual or disk unfortunately.
Trying key combinations, I found the CMD-+ and CMD-- way to turn on and
off the EL backlight,
while CMD-LARROW and CMD-LARROW changes contrast.
Any other useful key combination?
At power on, the two floppy version doesn't boot (no floppy disks), but
it shows a BIOS
menu where we could format floppies and use the machine as serial
terminal. Nice!
I tried to format a floppy (720k or 1.44M) on both floppy, but with no
luck, it doesn't work for some reason... :(
No way to boot the machine from a previously written 720k disk.
I don't understand what the problem could be. Any similar case anybody?
The fixed disk version boots nicely the MSDOS still installed on the HD.
It seems to work fine.
This is a customized version for Allen-Bradley, it has also a big D-sub
connector with three rows of pins on the back.
It has also a memory expansion in the back slot, with a total of
640K+896K detected at boot (1.5MB total).
No way to enter the BIOS menu however... maybe it's missing in this version?
Anybody have a scan of the manuals or images of floppy?
Thanks
Andrea