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- Msg 318 is 19 line(s) on 03/06/88 from JAY SAGE
- to DAVID MCCORD about DT42 STATUS
-
- After trying rather hard to get the DT42 to serve my purposes, I have,
- at least for the moment, given up. There were just too many small
- problems that kept popping up from time to time. And there were also
- some large problems. I could never find a way to get DateStamper to work
- on the system, even after I went into the code and made some changes that
- would allow for the nonstandard DOS size. Have you gotten it running?
- If so, I would be very interested in knowing how you did it.
-
- I also could not get PMATE to work on it. The problem with the first 3
- bytes of every record of a file read in using the XI macro could not be
- eradicated. This version of PMATE has worked without the slightest
- problem on the Ampro, SB180, BigBoard I, Televideo 803H, and ATR8000.
- So I have to conclude that there is something funny with the DT42.
-
- Instead, I brought up XBIOS and the ETS-180-IO+ board on my SB-180. Boy
- is that nice! I have 40 MB of hard disk running, a great real-time clock,
- DateStamper running in banked memory. The whole thing was quite easy to
- bring up. And I am sure BGii will run as well (in contrast to the DT42).
- I will be building a system with the DT42 later, so keep me posted on it.