Re: II+ (amazing what you forget in 16 years!)

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

David Wilson (david@uow.edu.au) wrote:
: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
: >It might not even do that.  I believe that the earliest motherboard
: >revisions didn't even do a power-on reset, so you had to press the RESET
: >key to get the monitor prompt after turning the machine on.  Oh how
: >times have changed (thank goodness!)

: This is true. This is also why the Disk ][ card has a reset generator
: circuit on it so that if you have an old motherboard with an Autostart
: monitor ROM and a Disk ][ you will have an autostarting system.

Maybe that explains it.  If you have an old Monitor ROM system, but you
have a Disk ][, then the Disk ][ would generate the RESET, and that would
explain why I never had to hit RESET to get the A][ to start up.  Logical?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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