front panels

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Tue Feb 24 21:57:08 1998

At 12:23 AM 2/24/98 -0600, you wrote:

>I may be in the running to buy an 8800b turnkey model which (sigh) doesn't
>have the nice front panel that you describe for the 8800b. Can you tell
>me how the turnkey works? Does it have a ROM'd bootstrap loader? Will I
>be able to program it if I don't have drives?

It has ROMed disk boot loader selectable for floppy or the PERTEC cartridge
hard drive. I don't recall it having any sort of interactive monitor, so
without some compatable boot device it would be tough.

-jim

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