5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
2:01 p.m.
listmailgoeshere at gmail.com wrote:
please could you get in touch? I've a disk I need
to read, and I've
just discovered that my Master no longer feels like working :(
I have two working BBC Masters, but I'm in north Bristol.
ObCCTalk: symptoms are just the message "Acorn
MOS, Acorn ADFS" and
then a flashing cursor upon switch-on. The drive does click as if it's
being selected, and the light comes on, but there are never any
head-movement sounds, and nothing further happens onscreen.
As others have said, this could be a dead battery in the
machine. Well worth trying to fix! Some hints that worked
for me:
http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/doctor.htm
--
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk