Televideo TS-806/20

From: Devon <bobcaar_at_cyberdude.com>
Date: Fri Jun 11 21:19:52 1999

I hadn't known thats what they were for (winch)...If I ever get some, I bet
I can rig something up. After fiddling around some more (thanks for the
info, all), I've got it to work...kind of...When it starts it now says
"System IPL from Hard disk in progress". Then no more... I know the disk
booted before ...I could type garbage back when I was getting garbage
(about 4 times before it quit)... It would be great if you could send me a
boot disk... Televideo hasn't replied to my e-mails yet...I'll give them a
few more days..

        T.H.x.
                Devon

At 06:24 PM 11/06/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>Well, I'm not sure I agree about the relative importance of cables with
>which to interface a hard disk. That's probably the one thing that makes a
>computer compute fast enough to be useful.
>
>First of all I'd try 9600 baud before anything else, since I believe that's
>the default. I don't remember what the board switches do, but I can hunt
>around for the manual and get back to you. I wouldn't use PCAW, as a
>terminal, myself. I haven't had good luck with it. How about Hyperterminal
>of Procomm. I've used both of those in connection with a PC and had better
>luck than with PCAW, though I've had good luck using PCAW for file
>transfers, etc.
>
>This box was ostensibly a file server and probably contains VERY important
>software, e.g. the MMMost (or whatever it was called) network OS, which
>isn't around any longer. This box is capable of serving as a single-user
>system, but if you still have the HDD, from which it should boot all by
>itself if it hasn't been roached up, you might want to preserve it.
>
>Well you're in luck . . . I got a phone interruption after which I thought
>of a place to look for the manual...Oddly enough, that's where it was.
>
>The manual says the "upper" four bits of the dip switch is used for baud
>rate settings. The lower four bits (5,6,7,8) are unused except for position
>8 which is reserved for diagnostics. Obviously, the one who wrote this
>manual was on drugs. A closed switch is a zero.
>
>The baud rates go from 19.2K down to 75, with ascending values from 0000 to
>1000, remembering that a 0 means CLOSED. Switch 1 is the lsb.
>
>I hope that helps you get it going!
>
>If you need a boot diskette, maybe I can help you there as well.
>
>Televideo, by the way, is still in business, so it's not inconceivable they
>might be able to help too, if you ask them.
>
>Dick
Received on Fri Jun 11 1999 - 21:19:52 BST

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