On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Steve Robertson wrote:
> I am having a little trouble with my TRS Model IV . When I boot off of the
> TRSDOS system disk, the system prompts for the time and won't go any
> farther. When I enter the time, it clears the field and prompts again.
>
> The computer works just fine with all my other software so, I suspect the
> disk is corrupt. If anyone has an extra copy of TRSDOS 6.x laying around,
> I'd really appreciate it.
The problem is that TRSDOS 6 will not accept _any_ date after 1987.
That applies to 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2. Try giving it a 1986 date and see
if it takes it.
Supposedly, it is still possible to get the update to TRSDOS to fix
this from Tandy, however it is not necessary. Go to Tim Mann's web
page, where he has available for download the final release of
LS-DOS, which has the fix.
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/trs80.html
Oh, and while you're there, and if you run Linux or any other
flavor of *nix, grab a copy of his newest improved xtrs TRS-80
emulator. I am now running Model One Scripsit and VisiCalc on my
P133 notebook with no need to use dosemu as a go-between as was the
case with the other emulators I'd tried. (There's a .rpm of the
version a couple of patchlevels back at contrib.redhat.com).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
Received on Fri Feb 05 1999 - 14:17:06 GMT