Hold the reset button on the back, then press Control-Break.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Josh Malone <josh.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > What procedure should I use for a cold start? I figured the memory power > should do it. > > > On Jul 3, 2016 10:52 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> Sounds like it is crashed. Try cold starting it and see if memory is back >> to normal. The typical ways this happens is running an ML program with a bug >> or attempting to load a untokenized basic program with a BA extension. >> >> Logical operators can be used for masking and whatnot. But to shift in >> BASIC you need multiplication and division by powers of two. >> >> -- John. >> >> On Sunday, July 3, 2016, Josh Malone <josh.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> So, >>> >>> I was sitting down to hack on some basic code >>> (https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/4qs0f3/july_is_basic_month_the_challenge_turtle_graphics/) >>> and typed in a quick basic statement to verify that Tandy 102 basic has >>> bitwise operators (it seems to). The command was something like "print c and >>> 2" or something stupid like that. To my surprise, my 102 reset itself. All >>> my files were gone (backed up, so no real loss) but now the menu is showing >>> 21446 bytes free. Some gremlin has stolen 8k of my RAM! >>> >>> I'm so perplexed by this, I just opened up my 102 to visually verify is >>> has 32k (indeed, all 4 RAM chips installed - although 1 is a different chip >>> than the other 3). I've let the system sit for >1 hour with memory switch >>> off and power removed. No change. >>> >>> What on earth could have happened? >>> >>> Last clue I have is that I re-loaded FILSIZ.BA and when I run it, I get >>> OV error on line 9. >>> >>> Thanks for any help anyone can provide. >>> >>> -Josh -- Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ DNRC: Lord of All Things That Are Fattening "To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job." - Ann Coulter Microsoft Free since July 06, 2001 Running Ubuntu 16.04
