Oh, wait I see the DIPs you refer to. They have plugs in them with
connections between the pins. Any pin out I can look at to read
what these are set for? The is one labeled BAUD RATE which the
switches plug into and two others labeled L SERIAL and R SERIAL.
On 6 Oct 98, at 18:00, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
> Do you have the manuals? You'll need to check the port definitions that
> are set via jumpers on the open DIPs near the back of the motherboard.
>
> Also, I seem to recall that North Star DOS was generated for a specific
> RAM size -- I believe it's top-resident. A DOS set up for 16K would work
> on 32K or 48K, but not vice versa.
>
> Kai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Williams [mailto:dlw_at_trailingedge.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 3:38 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: North Star Horizon Help
>
>
> Ok, I have a few minutes now to play around with the N* Horizon
> I've been fixing up. I've tried to power it up and it seems to hit the
> disk drive and then nothing. I've plugged some spare terminals into the
> port marked "Video Terminal Port" and played with baud rates and other
> comm settings but get nothing on any of my terminals. Also tried straight
> through and flipped comm cables. Can someone give me some info on these
> and maybe walk me through getting it set up and running so I can check and
> see if I've missed something? Oh, I'm trying both N*DOS 5.2 and N* CP/M
> 2.2.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -----
> David Williams - Computer Packrat
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