"Jim" <jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in message news:slrngcl1bu.25nj.jim@wotan.magrathea.local...
Sorry if this is technically off-topic, but: there's an ITT 2020 on the UK eBay site at the moment. The comments for it are that it powers up with a lot of '?'s on screen (it's item number 140264974487) and is being sold as faulty. *Does* this indicate a fault, or is it a case of "needs to hold a key down during boot"? Many thanks. Jim
Jim, this could be a normal startup with the non-autoatart ROM. In this case, you would Control-Reset to get into the BASIC ROM, then type PR#6, or whatever number slot the boot drive is in, and that's it. If you install an autostart ROM in F8, then it would startup, and look for the first slot with a boot drive and disk in place. So, I would have to say, no, not a fault, rather a feature that the seller is not aware of.
Bill Garber from GS-Electronics http://www.garberstreet.com