When the 5322 starts, it goes through a diagnostic proceedure. That's
what the numbers are. I'm not sure what the error code is, but it might
be looking for the printer. As I recall proc start is roughly equal to run.
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, 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?
>
> 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!
>
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>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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