----- Original Message ----- From: Brian White To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 2:16 AM Subject: Re: [M100] DVI cable
Setting aside the fact that we just spent a week proving that manuals aren't bibles and can be full of crap, yes I am following the startup procedure from the beginning of the dvi users manual. 0: Everything turned off. Everything connected. Drive door open. No disk in drive. Monitor on. 1: M100 on. 2: DVI on. 3: Wait for dvi to say "Insert System Diskette" 4: Insert disk and close drive door. ...doesn't matter what comes next, because nothing else happens. -- Motor doesn't spin? Light does not come on? -- Also another manual fallacy: "Be sure the edge with the write protect notch is the first to enter the drive." --- Yeah, I got a chuckle out of that one... --- Oh really? Well, I am not actually doing that, so, maybe that's why it's not working? hehe --- I wouldn't advise it, but it's in the manual so maybe you should try it just to convince yourself... ;-) Anyway, good luck! Glad to see you finally changed the Wiki. m ----------------------------------------- On Oct 27, 2017 1:19 AM, "Mike Stein" <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > That sounds more like a disk drive or disk problem. Indeed, assuming that he's following the correct boot sequence. BTW, I have a couple of copies of the single sheet addendum to the DVI instructions: "Notice to Users of Radio Shack's DISK/VIDEO INTERFACE" It lists the M100 and T200 files on the system diskette and adds the T200 Kill and Restart BASIC commands; is it on line somewhere or should I scan it? m ----- Original Message ----- From: John R. Hogerhuis To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [M100] DVI cable That sounds more like a disk drive or disk problem. I assume that is farther than it gets without any cable connected at all? — John.
