21 Jun
2009
21 Jun
'09
8:39 p.m.
At 8:11 PM -0400 6/21/09, Dave McGuire wrote:
You can fire it up and interact with the machine
("ODT"...a sort
of low-level monitor, and the boot ROM at a higher level) but you
won't be able to do much without a drive. Firing it up diskless
will at least verify that the hardware works and that your serial
cabling is correct.
Wasn't that a dual-height CPU board I saw? If so I am wondering what
sort of boot ROM it might have.
Zane
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