Tony Duell wrote:
...
> Err, one thing about the Sage is that it's so darn _easy_ to repair.
> There is one large PCB with everything on it. It sits at the top of the
> case with the drives and PSU under it, so it's trivial to look at signals
> on the IC pins. All the chips are standard, off-the-shelf parts (well, the
> EPROMs are programmed, of course). All chips are in sockets. and there are
> schematics in the user guide.
>
> What more do you want :-)...
>
That's what I like to hear! However, I was talking with my friend who owns it
today, and he didn't think it was broken, so that memory must have been an
uninitialized variable.
>
> > far as I can remember, and a Pascal P system. I remember that it used some
>
> The standard OS was the P-system. I think CP/M-68K was also available. I
> don't know if anything else was ported to it.
>
CP/M-68K would be fun.
>
> > kind of 80 track 5.25" floppy drives and there was this game on it called
>
> ...
> If you need a hand, I have the manual for mine alongside me, so I can
> suggest tests, etc. Does it do _anything_ at switch-on?
>
> -tony
Thanks. I need to convince him to dig it out and see what it does. Maybe
there's nothing wrong with the machine, but something wrong with him!
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Joel Ewy
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Received on Sat Apr 14 2001 - 15:05:02 BST