Monday, November 9, 2009
MAX 80
When you first power up a MAX 80, it responds by sending out a short beep every few seconds. That's the system telling you it needs a boot disk. If you plug the computer into a monitor, you'll only see a bunch of garbled characters...this is normal although not necessarily enough to inspire confidence when you have no boot disk to test with. And for two years, that's as far as I could get. I had been attempting to boot the system with a disk I found labeled but I had no idea if the disk was a system disk or just plain bad. I did not have a lot of confidence in the drive either. Every once in a while I would pull the system off the shelf, hook up a new combination of cables or drives or disks to see if I could make progress. No luck
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