ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2017
Entry 2nd June 2017: Post: 01
Driller Killer
Hi
You know how I said I had no confidence that the A3010 would work, well
scrub that. Plugged in, switched on and pressed the DELETE and she
booted straight into RISC OS3. My goodness. And it wasn't a fluke, I
repeated the process five times. Thing is without the battery the
machine has to reset and that means you have to press the DELETE and the
pretty coloured boxes on the screen that follow then a welcome beep and
chug from the floppy drive means its going to load. Previously this
machine just went into supervisor administrator mode and hung there...
Not now. She works faultlessly.
When I got these machines originally I don't recall many of them
working, but I wasn't to know the little trick with the RESET. I also
wasn't aware of the battery issue. So I would have slung them into
storage. Its magic that I have managed to get all the Acorns working,
save the Archimedes. Add that the BBCs working and I'm in Acorn Antiques
heaven.
Anyway... I can close this chapter now and move on to other projects.
Wonderful
scuzz
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