Updates on repairing Xerox Alto

Well, there isn't. :-) The cursor is generated by a microcode task. It does appear very early in the boot process, however. There are some good scanned documents about the Alto on Bitsavers -- Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Nick Allen [nick.allen at comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:14 PM To: cctech at classiccmp.org Subject: Updates on repairing Xerox Alto There must be some way to get the hardware cursor to appear even without booting to ethernet or the disk drive... I do have a disk drive, controller and disk packs, but as you mentioned it requires almost all the boards to be working, which may be very difficult if I can't gradually get things working and tested (such as the display board). I have however confirmed with an o-scope that I am getting the correct video output from the video board, so I assume that board is working properly. Now about a dozen more boards to go!