On 08/17/2015 03:31 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
Hey Jules,
Ah, so your O1 also has the weird screen artifacts prior to hitting
'return'? Weird.. wonder what's up with that?
No, sorry! I meant the "boot error" scrolling up the screen (e.g. it's not
the result of some kind of stuck key fault or anything).
I've only detected activity from drive A (LH side).
As Mike mentioned, try the shift-quote trick and see if the other drive
behaves differently.
It definitely does
spin, the LED lights up, but I haven't been able to detect any head
movement. You mention that the head on yours steps back & forth
(indefinitely?) with no disk present - does it behave any differently when
the drive door is open vs. closed?
It's the same whether the door is open or closed. Probably indefinite - I
got bored after a couple of minutes of listening to drive heads crunching :-)
In any case, one of us needs to find boot media..
Aha - I have it now... *somewhere*. I just didn't have any about a year ago
when I stopped goofing around with the system that you now have.
Unfortunately I don't immediately know where my CP/M disks are; Wordstar
and the xdiags disk were in one of the little cubby areas below the drives,
so I'm not sure why I didn't leave the CP/M disks there, too.
IIRC I got mine from images on Dave Dunfield's site and wrote them on a PC
(but you'll need a PC with a controller capable of writing FM density). My
todo list is about nine miles long right now, but I can probably rustle you
a set of disks eventually if nobody else gets there first!
cheers
Jules
