If there's anyone in West Yorkshire with a working BBC Master and

[Tony Duell]

> 
> please could you get in touch? I've a disk I need to read, and I've
> just discovered that my Master no longer feels like working :(

How long since you last used it?

> 
> ObCCTalk: symptoms are just the message "Acorn MOS, Acorn ADFS" and
> then a flashing cursor upon switch-on. The drive does click as if it's

Do I take it from this that you don't get the BASIC message?

Being a Master, it's quite likrly the internal battery is flat and the 
configuration RAM is corrupted. There's a key combination to reset this 
(I forget it, it's in the mnual, though). Try that, and then configure 
the options you want. If that cures it, replace the batteries...

If not, try reseating all the socketed ICs.

-tony