Re: Problem with Apple //e boot ... help?

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

If the same thing remains on the screen with a power cycle then you're not
waiting long enough. You have to wait while the power supply's smoothing
capacitors discharge before the memory loses its contents.

I can quickly toggle the power switch on my PC and everything remains
working fine. Usually there's enough charge for about a second (depending on
what's running in the computer). A lightly-loaded Apple IIe can sometimes
remember things for 5 or more seconds.

Simon.

"KellihanB" <kellihanb@aol.comDelete> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
>    I just got a new Apple file://e (well to me anyways).  I admit I'm new
to Apple
> ][, so if this is a simple thing, just let me know :-)
>    I plugged everything in and popped in an Apple ][ Desktop disk and it
booted
> up fine.  (runs on ProDOS 8, dated sometime in August of 1988).  No
problem..
> Well I turn it off.  I turn it back on... problem.
>    Never having really used Apple file://e hardware I'm a little confused.
It goes
> "beep beep" and then I'm in what looks like a machine language monitor.  I
> tried a few one letter commands... s doesn't do anything.  l lists a few
lines
> in hex I think.  The odd thing is turning it off and back on, it remebers
what
> was on screen before.  Goes "beep beep" and displays a new line and gives
an *
> for a prompt.. How do I get out of this?  I've turned it back off a while
> thinking it might "forget" after sometime, but no effect?  Is there a key
> sequence to get out of this?  And what the heck is it?  a Machine language
> monitor?  I thought this would go to Basic if no disk was detected...
>   Please note that this is the enhanced version of the file://e (or so the
keyboard
> says..)
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bret