30 Aug
2004
30 Aug
'04
2:50 p.m.
Currently on eBay is an auction for a Poly 8810.
The seller shows pictures of the screen with random text garbage.
Anyone know if this is normal for these systems, if perhaps a boot disk is
not readable?
Or is this a hardware problem?
The eBay item number is 5119743938
31 Aug
31 Aug
10:27 a.m.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Ed Chapel wrote:
Currently on eBay is an auction for a Poly 8810.
The seller shows pictures of the screen with random text garbage.
Anyone know if this is normal for these systems, if perhaps a boot disk is
not readable?
Or is this a hardware problem?
The eBay item number is 5119743938
I have a Polymorphic display card in my Altair and that's exactly
how it looks on power up, working normally. Just random garbage in
memory. I can post a photo for doubters. A two byte 8080 program
would clear all memory incl. the display (0x33, 0xc7 i think,
inc sp then rst 0)
--Chuck
10:33 a.m.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Ed Chapel wrote:
Currently on eBay is an auction for a Poly 8810.
The seller shows pictures of the screen with random text garbage.
Anyone know if this is normal for these systems, if perhaps a boot disk is
Let me amend the last response - I'm ONLY speaking about the video
card, I know nothing about the Poly systems, if a ROM is supposed to
clear the display memory before hitting the disk or what ;) But
what is shown is good power, video memory and signal.
--Chuck
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