12 Jan
2003
12 Jan
'03
12:07 p.m.
FWIW, View is a word processor.
Acorn OS
Acorn DFS
BASIC
is exactly correct - you are in basic now. If
you can get keyboard
working, you can key *HELP for a list of installed ROMs, and other
accessible system commands.
I recently sold an American beeb that had been converted back to British
specs. Interesting piece. I've also got a German one (also with a dodgy
PSU) that is pretty much the same. The "normal" British ones didn't have
any of the heavy metal screening around the case.
Oh, newbie list member here (thanks to the slashdot article).
The PDP talk makes me want to kick my boss - he chucked two PDP11/23 clones
(but original boards inside) on the tip last year, as well as sone S100
machine. I knew they'd have been worth something, but he's something of a
chuck-out maniac.
Cheers,
Rob.
At 18:38 12/01/2003 +0000, Joe wrote:
Well the Acorn is alive again. I finally got around
to fixing the power
supply. That also took care of the buzzing sound that was coming from the
speaker. I'm also now getting a prompt. Before the PSU blew I was
getting the ROM messages but no prompt. Now I'm getting "Acorn OS",
"Acorn DFS", "BASIC" and ">" with a blinking underline
prompt after that.
However it's still not responding to the keyboard (except for the
Control-Break).
Just for the hell of it I tried powering it up with different ROMs
removed. With the "US BASIC" ROM removed it asked "What Language?".
Of
course since the keyboard wasn't working I couldn't tell it anything.
With both the "US BASIC" and "DNFS" ROM removed it reported
"View A2.1",
"No Text", Editing No File", "Screen Mode 7", "Printer
Default" and a
"=>" prompt. Looks like I fell into some kind of monitor program. Still
can't do anything due to faulty keyboard.
FWIW the memory chips in it are Mostek 4516N-9.
I cleaned up before Christmas and misplaced the bag with the screws for
it, *&^(&%%!
Joe