28 Jan
1998
28 Jan
'98
2:46 a.m.
Hi!
I just picked up an MZ-721, which is rather neat. Oddly, it loads Basic
from tape, which seems fairly unusual for a
cassette-based system.
Anyway, when I switched it on I got nothing but garbage on
the screen,
and ning I do seems to change it at all. Shoud I consider this a dead
computer, take photos and treasure the manuals? Or is this the sort of
think which *may* be repaired, so I shoudl track down someone who fixes
these things and get them to look at it. Indeed, is it even worth the
effort?
I tried to find information on it, but almost everything seems to be in
Japanese. :)
Thanks heaps,
Adam.
29 Jan
29 Jan
3:03 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 adam(a)merlin.net.au wrote:
I just picked up an MZ-721, which is rather neat.
Oddly, it loads Basic
from tape, which seems fairly unusual for a cassette-based system.
Anyway, when I switched it on I got nothing but garbage on the screen,
and ning I do seems to change it at all. Shoud I consider this a dead
computer, take photos and treasure the manuals? Or is this the sort of
think which *may* be repaired, so I shoudl track down someone who fixes
these things and get them to look at it. Indeed, is it even worth the
effort?
No old computer is ever "dead". One shouldn't hold onto them only if they
work. The point is to keep them around so that one can at least see and
touch them, open them up and look at their circuitry. You can't do that
with a picture obviously. All computers will eventually "die", but I'm
not about to start burying them all. After all, they don't start
decomposing and smelling bad. If you don't want to keep it, e-mail me
privately and I'll pay to have it shipped to me and I'll hold onto it.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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7:21 a.m.
Sounds like it's not reading the bootstrap ROM properly. Open it up and
reseat the ICs in it.
Joe
At 02:16 AM 1/29/98 +0930, you wrote:
Hi!
I just picked up an MZ-721, which is rather neat. Oddly, it loads Basic
from tape, which seems fairly unusual for a cassette-based system.
Anyway, when I switched it on I got nothing but garbage on the screen,
and ning I do seems to change it at all. Shoud I consider this a dead
computer, take photos and treasure the manuals? Or is this the sort of
think which *may* be repaired, so I shoudl track down someone who fixes
these things and get them to look at it. Indeed, is it even worth the
effort?
I tried to find information on it, but almost everything seems to be in
Japanese. :)
Thanks heaps,
Adam.
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