At 11:51 PM 7/19/97 +0000, you wrote:
>A while back I picked up a TRS-80 Model 3 without disk drives. It
>works fine and I've been on the prowl for drives for it. Well, the
>other day while picking up some PDP-8 stuff (questions for another
>time), the guy gave me 2 Model 3s with drives. I've cleaned them up
>and checked them out and finally powered them on. Now this is the
>problem. They come on and the lower drive (drive 0?) lights up and
>then stops and the screen stays blank. I don't have a DOS for them
>so my question is, should these boot up without it as my cassette
>based 3 does, giving me the Cassette? and RAM? questions or do I have
>to get TRSDOS or one of the others. If these systems are bad, I'm
>thinking of moving the drives to my cassette system. Looks like a
>lot of boards to move, assuming the drives and controller are ok.
>Comments? Also, can someone help out with a copy of TRSDOS, NewDOS,
>LDOS or some other and a comm program?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-----
>David Williams - Computer Packrat
>dlw_at_neosoft.com
>http://www.neosoft.com/~dlw
>
>
When I turned on my Model 4 with no disks I got "CASSETTE?"
on the screen. The lower drive light stays on. Have you checked to see if
brightness is turned up on the monitor?
Cheers
Charlie Fox
Received on Sun Jul 20 1997 - 08:02:37 BST