IBM 5322

From: Wayne M. Smith <wmsmith_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Jan 16 02:36:02 2003

> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know what is going on? How do I boot from the
> floppy drive? Anyone got an OS disk? A manual?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage

It is a Datamaster -- the same thing I had in my exhibit at VCF 5.0.

The numbers indicate internal diagnostic tests. Here's what the numbers
stand for:

01 CPU
02 ROS
03 Reserved
04 R/W Storage
05-07 CRT Controller
08 Page registers
09-19 ROS installed on planar board
1A-29 Feature ROS installed on I/O cards
2A-30 R/W Storage
31 R/W Storage Page Register
32 DMA Page Register
33 Interrupt Controller
34 Internal Timer
35 Keyboard
36 Printer Attachment
37 Diagnose Command to Printer
38 Diskette Attachment
39 +24 Volts to internal diskette
3A Second printer attachment
3B Diagnose CMD to Second Printer
3C Internal Wrap of Serial Interface Adapter
3D Open link to a 5247 [hard disk]
3E Check 5247 Disk unit for "ready" status
FD System Diskette installation

An underlined number means the feature is not attached to the 5322. My
diagnostics manual says that if you get a display of 3F through FC (and
I believe 4A would fall in there) then you need to "replace CPU planar
board". However, because you are getting to PROC START -- which is
where you should be, I think the problem lies elsewhere -- with the 35.

According to the manual, the inverse video on the 35 means that you have
a "jammed down key" that is being detected on startup. This may well be
causing the "41".

"PROC START" is the normal prompt following boot and is asking you to
insert the "Customer Support Functions" diskette into the computer,
which contains a program called "START" which is an update program which
prompts you to enter date, time, etc. When you hit enter (or type PROC
START as you did) the 5322 looks for the program in the disk drive. The
flashing "OPTION 10" is an action code meaning "insert diskette." You
can clear this by either using (1) the error reset key, (2) Cmd key and
Error Reset, or (3) Cmd key and Attn key.

The computer boots to BASIC, which is the OS. Try typing in a few lines
when you get the PROC START screen. I have manuals. I also have
customer support disk, learning disk, etc. if you need copies. I also
have an extra planar board (condition unknown) if you think it's a
problem.

-W
Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 02:36:02 GMT