I just picked up an old and neglected Xerox 860 IPS system. It came
with a mess of spare boards, most marked bad, and a box of original
Xerox disks. Problem is I can't get it to boot any of them. Is there
someone on this list that could send me a known good one so, I have a
place to start from ? I don't really care what it boots as long as it
boots to something on yours.
I've done all the customary re-seating of everything and swapping boards
around but, the boot result is the same. Even with all the boards
swapped out with spares. Everything is pretty clean inside. No leaking
caps or frayed wires. Connectors all look good.
I've read a couple entries on various pages claiming this was not really
a computer but, a word processor that ran a custom OS. Mine came with
original Xerox labeled CP/M disks along with COBOL, Visicalc, dBase, and
Wordstar so, someone had to be using them for more then word processing.
It also came with a Xerox Word Processing system disk that attempts to
boot as well. It loads for awhile then just stops and does nothing
further. The CP/M one boots for a bit then prints C to the screen like
perhaps it is printing out the CP/M banner and dying after the letter C.
the front display just read 0000 which I think means no errors. I have
no idea if the keyboard works.
Appreciate any thoughts. Thanks.