PG Manney wrote:
>
> > How do you get in the cmos on a Grid 1660????
> >
> > Some body brought it to me and said it could not find A drive and when I
> looked it had 5 drives A.C.D.F.H. And when I got rid of H drive it took
> the Operating files with it. now I got disk error and I want to get into
> cmos to see if I can format the drive and start from scratch.
>
> When all else fails I use an old (Packard Bell!) 286 setup program that
> seems to work most of the time. Won't work on nonstandard HDD tables,
> though.
Did a quick AltaVista search on ' +grid & +1660 & +cmos & +setup ' and
the first thing that came up was <
http://www.firmware.com/pb4ts/grid.htm>.
They say they have a generic setup that mostly works, plus give pointers
to Tandy and AST sites (since Tandy bought GriD, then sold _All_ of their
computer interests to AST several years back -- as a former stockholder I
understood, then again as an employee-stockholder I understood why they
switched over to nothing but PC compatible in 86-87 despite having better
products of their own, but that's what caused me to move on after five+
years in tech support, since the load got too big when every idiot trying
to integrate his Tandy 1000 with a no-name printer and a bootleg graphic
game called for help. The old products may not have been as promiscuous
as the current stuff, but it worked well. I like the Tandy 2000 for its
keyboard and displays, but I hated the Tandy 1200 (as did _every_ Tandy
employee who worked with them -- the Board of Directors never had to), and
I never liked the Tandy 1000 line or its descendents. To me, Tandy peaked
with the 6000, the 100, the 4p and the Color Computer 3. And if you visit
your local store, all you'll see is IBM crap. And hey, I _like_ a lot of
IBM where I work -- I sysadmin RS/6000 AIX boxen that are almost as good
as my Linux systems at home.
I'm babbling. Should have rested a second day with this flu, but needed
to make sure my systems at work were set up for the holiday weekend.
--
Ward Griffiths
Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie,
that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.
Received on Wed Dec 24 1997 - 18:54:55 GMT