Re: ITT2020 question

[Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com>]

On 2008-09-12, Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> "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. 

That's kind of what I was hoping :-)

Thank you very much.

Jim
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