15 Mar
1999
15 Mar
'99
5:36 a.m.
Well son-of-a-buck I didn't know it would go to mod 3 Basic that way! I had
three of the stupid things and no memory from school of the peculiarities of
them, no docs or disks either. They sat in storage until I got a boot disk
copy and then sold them. One gave it's life on the way to the left coast at
the hand of our ever-able UPS (pronounced OOPS) person.
Three days after I shipped the one that got busted a woman with a heavy
Bostonian accent called me direct looking for one to replace a dead one at
Bayer, Inc. Seems they have a processing line or office use for them until
they convert.
Tony Duell wrote:
Does anyone know what this computer goes for? When i start it up, the
screen is full of strange characters. I hit the orange button and then
the drive lights go on and the bottom drive light stays on. The prompt
is: Diskette?
I don't have any disks for it. I just picked it up yesterday. What's
wrong with it? How can i fix it? does anyone have any disks for it?
There's probably nothing wrong with it. Try holding down the 'break' key
and pressing/releasing 'reset' (the orange button in the top right of the
keyboard). It should now go into BASIC. Answer the 'CASS?' and 'MEMORY
SIZE?' prompts by pressing enter and you can type in BASIC programs.
There's a disk image of LS-DOS 6.3.1 on Tim Mann's web page. To get it
onto a real disk you can either use one of the PC-based TRS-80 emulators
that can use real disks (xtrs can under linux on a PC) or a little
program I wrote to do this (also under linux).
-tony