ADDS Mentor 2000 - Got it to boot!

Hi Guys, Got the ADDS mentor 2000 to boot today. I have two small books which came with the system: MENTOR Introduction MENTOR Installation Giude M2000/M2500 Fortunately the installation guide has the pinouts for the serial ports and some basic information about the startup monitor. On power-up, on Port#0 I get: ADDS Mentor Diagnostic Assurance Monitor Release 1.2 Copyright 1984 ... (The following tests take about 15 MINITES to complete): EPIC Test passed RAM test Card 0000 Bank 0001-0003 (several times) Passed PATSI Test passed Disk Test Drive 0000 Track 0000-(approx 1300 hex) Passed Tape Test - Tape drive not ready - Passed 9 Comm lines 512k Core OPTIONS [X,F,NX]= Entering 'X' gets me: Spooler Started Linking workspace for process 0 < Welcome to ADDS Mentor > <00:00:12 Release 2.4 Rev(8) 23 SEP 1988> Time=(enter time here) Date=(enter date here) Did you just reload OS from tape? (Entered NO) ADDS Mentor (mumble) ... Login? SYSPROG is the "superuser", and the system does recognize this name and prompts for a password (it does not prompt for passwords to names it does not know) - unfortunately I have no idea what the password might be... On the inside of the drive cover, I found a handwritten label with two usernames and passwords - one of them is either no longer valid, or I can't decypher it (hard to read writing), however I was able to figure out what the other one was, and successfully logged in to the system. Unfortunately this username comes up with a little menu system offering various business system options, and I could not figure out how to get to a command shell. (Entering BREAK locked up the system - 20 mins to reboot!). Some questions: 1) Does anyone know of a way to bypass the SYSPROG password? 2) Is there any way to make the system boot without waiting for the power-on tests to complete. I can get to the monitor command prompt, and I can run various tests from there, but I have not found a way to boot the system other than to power-off, power-on and wait for the tests to complete. [One good thing I did find in the docs, was the command to shutdown/park the drive properly from the monitor - useful since I can't get to a command prompt - According to the docs I need to be logged in as SYSPROG to SHUTDOWN] 3) Anyone know exactly what type of tapes this machines uses (If I take it apart and get the drive model number, this might give us a clue). I found a function in the monitor which apparently backs up the hard drive to tape ... 4) Anyone know of a way to "break out" of a program launched at login to a command shell (the docs says it's called TCL for Terminal Command Language). 5) Anyone know what the "F" or "NX" commands do in response to OPTIONS [X,F,NX]= Do any of these options let me reinit the system, reset the SYSPROG password ? 6) If I answer "Yes" to "Did you just reload from tape", what exactly will this do? ... Will it let me re-init the system/reset the SYSPROG password? 6) Any other info, esp. about the "Diagnostic Assurance Monitor" commands etc. Would be most useful... ? Regards, Dave PS: The TRS-80 Model II that I picked up along with it works too! -- dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html