On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:47, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> I have an IBM 5322. I can't find any useful information on the web. It
> looks very much like a System/23 Datamaster. Is it one and the same?
>
> Next question:
>
> When I boot it up it comes up with a display as follows:
>
> 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A
> -- -- --
>
> 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>
> 2F 30 31 32 33 34[35]36 37 38 39 FD
> -- --
>
> 4A
>
> The hyphens underneath numbers indicate that those numbers are underlined,
> and the square brackets indicate that that number is inversed video.
>
> Does anyone know what this means?
>
This is the boot diagnostics. I *used* to know what the individual
numbers were, but alas 1980 was a long time ago.
> Last question:
>
> I press the RESET button and it clears the screen and goes into what looks
> to be a prompt mode. It had "PROC START" on the bottom, so I entered this
> as a command. Now a status line on the bottom has "OPTION 10" with the
> "10" blinking and I can't figure out what to do.
>
You're in the command prompt. There should be a way to get it (again
that 1980 thing) to enter the editor so that you can write some code in
BASIC.
> Does anyone know what is going on? How do I boot from the floppy drive?
> Anyone got an OS disk? A manual?
>
Everything is in ROM. The floppies are for storage of programs and
such.
> Thanks!
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TTFN - Guy
Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 22:37:28 GMT