Off Topic about GRiD and 1958 Oscilloscope- Help requested.

From: Greg Linder <fluke_at_mcs.net>
Date: Thu Jun 17 00:30:18 1999

        I've gotten my hands on a touchscreen GRiDpad. I don't recall the
model number, but its just an LCD panel with some buttons along the side,
and a stylus. I found a keyboard port pinout for it and build a power
adapter, and can get it to ask me to abort, retry, or fail, but I cannot
get it to do anything remotely useful.
        The appeal of this system is that I am a religious GEOS user for
MSDOS pc's, and the idea of having touchscreen-GEOS is pretty cool (GEOS
has built in support for the GRiD's goofy video resolution, I believe, as
well as support for its touchscreen-mouse driver).
        My question is this: What do I put on a hard drive to get it to
boot? It seems reluctant to boot off of a conventional micro-IDE drive
that has MS-DOS on it, and if I don't have a drive plugged in it says GRiD
Bios v. something.something.
        When I first got it it had no HD in it at all, just two PCMCIA
looking slots, which I would assume to be PCMCIA sockets. One of these
sockets is on a daughter board adjacent to a micro-IDE connector. I am
stuck. I've had this in my basement for quite some time, but I can't
figure out how to get it to boot anything.
        On a side note, I've also picked up a 1958 Tektronix O-scope (the
school I go to was tossing it). It works fine, aside from the fact that
the CRT on it scans so far to the left as to be almost off the screen.
Does anyone out there have experience with this vintage of oscilloscope?

        Thanks!

                Greg
Received on Thu Jun 17 1999 - 00:30:18 BST