From: uhclemLOSE.aug08@nemesis.lonestar.org
1. Have he confirmed that the display brightness and
contrast are not turned all the way down and he simply
can't see what is going on?
Press and HOLD the BREAK key while pressing and releasing
the Orange RESET button.
The prompt "Cass?" should appear on the screen.
Press ENTER a couple of times for more text.
If nothing is displayed, check brightness/contrast
controls under left edge of case (when viewed from the front).
Turn them all the way each way until you can see the raster on
the screen and then adjust so that only the text is visible.
If the text is not visible despite adjusting both of these
controls but the floppy drive comes on briefly (which usually
indicates that the CPU is executing good instructions), it is
possible the video cable has come loose inside the case or the
video board or the CRT are bad. Get the video working
before messing with the floppies.
2. Once the display is working and displaying reasonable text, turn
the power on, wait for the drive to stop spinning, insert a
single-sided Model III TRSDOS 1.3 or LDOS 5, or Model 4 TRSDOS 6
or LS-DOS 6 diskette into the lower drive, label side up.
Close the door and press the Orange RESET key and allow
up to 30 seconds for anything to be displayed. TRSDOS 1.3
is the slowest, the others will display something more quickly.
On the original equipment, only single-sided drives were
present, so only single-sided media formats are acceptable.
(Yes, there are additional OSes that will work on this
machine, but these are the originally-supported ones.)
Frank Durda IV - send mail to this address and remove the "LOSE":
http://nemesis.lonestar.org
"Dear Mr Icann, the reason I and others use Yahoo is because it
isn't controlled by Microsoft. Quit trying to mess this up."
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