Sage II

[emanuel stiebler]

On 2016-11-04 15:20, william degnan wrote:
> great to hear
Yes, I'm enjoying this little machine ;-)

I have one question:

How does it check, how much RAM is in it?
Boot shows 128K, but the board has 512K



> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:40 PM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
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>> On 2016-10-30 15:40, william degnan wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 9:44 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
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>> I also got last week a IBM PC 5170, if I could get it working,
>>>> it should be able to write the SAGE II floppies, right?
>>>>
>>> if it's a 96 tpi drive and you have a newer OS like DOS 6.2 running on it.
>>>
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>> OK, I got the IBM 5170 somehow working, got the sage II starting,
>> copied the system disk (SYSTEM.IMD) to the 5 1/4 disk,
>> and it boots !!!
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>> Crashed after a while, and only shows 128K (512k is populated),
>> Monitor is Version 2.1, but it is a start !!!
>>
>> Thanks to all who helped!
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