In a message dated 19/01/02 driess94(a)dolfijn.nl writes:
> HEllo, I have bought a Toshiba T3100/20 but it won't start.
Stefan,
This may help, it applies to a Toshiba T3200SX so may be of some use.
If there is a small switch located near the floppy drive, set it to 'B' or
'PRT'.
This switch configures the parallel port for printer or external floppy drive.
If it's set to 'A' the bios goes looking on the parallel port for the A drive.
The machine should now boot from a DOS boot disk.
Bios settings. If the T3100 is anything like the T3200 then it is likely that
there is a default bios setting for the hard drive. Try this setting. If
there isn't
a default setting you will have to open the machine up and see what HDD is
fitted. You'll have to do this anyway to replace the battery.
Getting the case apart. On the top of the case, at the rear, there are two
small covers which slide off to reveal hidden screws. Undo all of the screws
on the underside, take of the rear cover and metal panel and the case should
come apart. The battery is probably stuck onto the back of the floppy drive
chassis with Velcro. (The T3200's only bad feature in my opinion).
If you need to take the display apart, the screws are located under the rubber
'feet' located in the corners and underneath the label marked FDD, HDD etc.
A pair of AAA sized Alkaline cells will do as a temporary replacement CMOS
backup battery. There is enough room under the keyboard for them.
Good Luck
Chris
Please reply to the originator about these items.
Thanks.
- don
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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:31:47 -0500
From: Jeff Mellor <cjeffmellor(a)aol.com>
Reply-To: mellor(a)utk.edu
To: donm(a)cts.com
Subject: RE: Kaypro 10 for sale
I have a fully functional Kaypro 10 computer (excellent outside physical
condition, all original books, disks, cordura carrying case), Comrex
daisy wheel printer (several wheels) also fully functional), and Tandy
102 (also fully functional, original box, books, plus several other
books) with connecting cord (to input data into Kaypro) for sale at a
fair price. Would you or any of your contacts be interested?
Contact:
Jeff Mellor
4204 Taliluna Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37919-8363
(865) 522-9896
cjeffmellor(a)aol.com
mellor(a)utk.edu
HEllo, I have bought a Toshiba T3100/20 but it won't start.
When I boot it up it start's with an error.
Then you have to press F1 to go to the CMOS Bios or some thing.
Then you have to select the Hard disk and floppy drives and stuff.
Then it will say that floppy drive A isn't installed.
After a wile it start and say's "Put system disk in drive"
What can I do so it start's correctly??
Many thanks.
Stefan Driessen Jr.
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Somewhere recently, I'm pretty sure it was on one of these two lists,
someone ribbed me for being "such a pushover" for my cat.
I took this pic earlier...tell me, who could help being a pushover
for this?
http://ti.neurotica.com/adorable-cat.jpg
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
I have a Diablo 3200 and just about to dump. Have spent a few hours trying
to get it work.
I have boot , diagnostic and some application disks
I am in London England where are you
Gordon
OK, I now know why OS/2 Warp is only seeing 48MB. It's because the
computer things it's has 16MB in each of the three banks when in reality it
has 64MB per bank, for a total of 192MB (in upgrading I discovered that it
didn't have the 48MB I thought was in it, it had 112MB).
According to the manuals this system supports 32MB EDO SIMMs, which is what
I'm using in all three banks. Any idea how to convince it that it has them
instead of 8MB ones (it things it has 1 bank of ECC, and two of EDO).
What can I say, I just got the system recently and it's the first PPro I've
had, and the first system with EDO RAM.
Zane
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I've mentioned my obsession with terminals before and today I had a real
find. I was doing my regular trawl of the skips at work and found a
Lynwood Alpha, which I've not seen for nearly 15 years.
I worked for a year at the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Culham Labs,
Oxon, and used to use a Lynwood Alpha to connect to their Prime minis.
It was only a text terminal (AFAIK), but it was most appealing to me
because you could define soft characters, right from the keyboard.
Lynwood Scientific Developments Ltd. used to make TEMPEST-compliant
equipment for government agencies, but at the time I didn't have a clue
whether these terminals were shielded and had fibre-optic comms outputs
or were ordinary terminals. All I knew was that the screen was very
heavy. Since then, I've never seen one or found any information about
them, so I didn't even know whether the Alpha was completely Lynwood's
product or a shielded version of someone else's terminal. Now I know!
This terminal was used in one of our radar trials vans, presumably
bolted into a big rack, because the top of the monitor case is missing
and it had an extra fan bolted underneath the monitor, blowing up
through the three cards sitting alongside the CRT. As best as I can
tell, it dates from 1981 and is powered by a Zilog Z8001 CPU, which I've
never seen before. The Comms output is either RS232C or 20mA. No sign of
fibre.
The keyboard is huge and heavy, with two long rows of function keys at
the top. Intriguingly, the top row of keys have LEDs built in, with
legends like "Format", "Italics", "Half Intensity", "Rev Video",
"Blink", "Under", "Graphics" and "RAM Ch Gen". I wonder why this was?
You'd expect the host to send codes to change the rendition of
characters, rather than having the user swap at will!
Unfortunately, it has been out in the rain for a week, so I'll have to
dry it thoroughly before attempting to fire it up. There are also two
NiCad cells on one of the boards and they have leaked, so a bit of
cleaning is in order.
It's not very interesting to look at, but I'll take some photos and
stick them on the Web site it anyone would like to see it.
- Paul
PS. Also nosed around a colleague's bookshelf and discovered a User
Manual for Data General DASHER D410 and D460 terminals, containing
programming information, so I'll scan that later.
Last time I went to university savlage, they had a HP model 236 'computer'
laying in the back corner, and I was wondering if it was worth anything to
pick up. It looks like an Apple II with a pair of built-in 5-1/4" floppy
drives and 'integrated' keyboard, a pair of HPIB ports on the back, and
some boxish-looking 14" or so monitor.
What kind of stuff is probably inside, and how old is it? (Proc, possible
memory size, etc...)
-- Pat
>Hello,
>
>GCC has support for the PDP-11, but is anyone using it to (cross)
>compile any code?
I know it, and I even downloaded the support package some time ago.
But, in appeareance, nobody know it, or they have an wrong idea
about what we speak when mention GCC for PDP-11.
Just by the way... What's the status of this package (GCC support
for PDP-11) actually ? What machine requirements are needed
in the PDP-11 side ? It could be a good moment to do a cross
development test.
Greetings
Sergio
Hello, all:
I recently got a //c with the 5-1/4" internal drive and was playing around
with it last night. It doesn't seem to want to boot DOS 3.3 and it seems to
only be able to boot ProDOS disks, which stops after the splash screen
(copyright notice) with a "relocation/configuration error". DOS 3.3 won't
boot at all. I've seen this error before with ProDOS but I don't remember
the reason. This error occurs with both ProDOS 1.1.1 and 1.9 disks, and I
tried multiple working disks.
This is a strange one but since I don't have much experience with the //c I
wanted to throw this problem out to the group. Any thoughts?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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