4 Jun
2001
4 Jun
'01
12:06 p.m.
Luckily I had no flames or holey boards! After checking my terminal
settings, cabling, etc., should I power up with those burnt caps in place,
or should I desolder them and leave their contacts on the boards open?
Didn't connect the floppies yet. Just wanted to see if I was going to
get messages on the terminal from the ROMs first.
Edwin
At 12:55 PM 6/4/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I had this experience before with a Sol-20. Aside from being loud and
smelly, the tantalum caps exploding really shouldn't hinder the operation
of the system. Tantalum caps on older systems like S-100's that haven't
been powered up in some time are prone to exploding.
If you have a problem it's most likely related to some other failure.
Perhaps you should check to make sure you have matching settings on
your serial port and terminal. Also, make sure your cable is the right
kind (straight through...NOT a "null-modem" cable).
Also, maybe your system is expecting a boot disk to do anything useful.
Did you notice if your drives are spinning when you fire it up?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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