Sirius1/Victor 9000 - has anyone ever seen one working?

The flashing disk icon, as you've ascertained, suggests the machine would quite like a disk, please... I *think* the "x01" means that it's found a disk in drive 1. The fact it's not booting suggests that either the disk label is in error, or it's not a Victor/Sirius disk, or the disk has corrupted over time and is no longer bootable, or being a backup it was never bootable in the first place. My knowledge of CP/M is also derisory, my machine came with an MSDOS disk (v2.1 IIRC). I can't give you any further advice just now, as a) my Sirius is in bits in England, and b) I'm not in England.... However, one of the jobs I have to do is re-assemble it after I return; and since I've successfully booted it from floppy disk in the past, I'll check out what actually happens. One question - if you listen to the drive, is it spinning, and are the heads moving? Cheers, Ade. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of JP Hindin Sent: 15 April 2008 21:48 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Sirius1/Victor 9000 - has anyone ever seen one working? A very generous chap here (thanks Steve) sent me a bunch of media for my Victor 9000, as I've had no bootable software for it. Most of the new disks are application programmes, but there's one labelled: SYSGEN 5/20/82, CP/M 86 2.2, BACKUP Which I figure should be on the money (although, admittedly, I've never used CP/M before, so I may have it wrong). The Victor has a pair of Tandon TM100-3's, which as far as I can find online are SS/DD - and the diskettes I have are also labelled SS/DD, so that lines up. I have read (in the Vector Tech Ref, thanks BitSavers) that the machine will boot from either diskette drive, which is good since the drive latch mechanism on my left-hand drive is damaged and won't allow the drive to engage. Anyways. I stick in the CP/M floppy and hit the switch. The VDU warms up and, after it checks out the disk drive with the floppy in it, I get a cute little floppy disk logo in the bottom-right hand corner of the screen and next to it is "x 01", as in, "disks times one". From there, nothing. I've tapped all the keys on the keyboard without any apparent change. If I remove the floppy the disk with 'x 01' disappears and I get a blinking floppy logo, so it certainly appears functional in that respect. The Tech Ref manual on BitSavers tells me how to low-level access graphics and helpful things like that - but I need the "Victor9000 for Dummies" guide to tell me what in the heck I'm even looking at. Can anyone help? Thanks much! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.13/1377 - Release Date: 14/04/2008 09:26