A good friend gave me a Decmate II awhile back. Appears the HD has gone bad. Been fiddling with it off and on to see if I could get it
to boot from the floppy drive. Disconnected the HD and once every so often the "Decmate II" screen shows up on the monitor. Thought
maybe having the HD controller still installed may be confusing it. So tonight I removed that. It will start to the "Decmate II" screen which
implies it passed all internal tests. My first question is should this screen stay on or just display for a bit and clear. It clears. Putting
a floppy in does nothing even though the manual says this is what I should do. So since I have never really used one of these before
I'd still like to boot it from floppy. I have plenty of floppy disks. The system even has the CP/M card installed. Any suggestions or tips
in what to try next? Thanks in advance.
Tim R
to boot from the floppy drive. Disconnected the HD and once every so often the "Decmate II" screen shows up on the monitor. Thought
maybe having the HD controller still installed may be confusing it. So tonight I removed that. It will start to the "Decmate II" screen which
implies it passed all internal tests. My first question is should this screen stay on or just display for a bit and clear. It clears. Putting
a floppy in does nothing even though the manual says this is what I should do. So since I have never really used one of these before
I'd still like to boot it from floppy. I have plenty of floppy disks. The system even has the CP/M card installed. Any suggestions or tips
in what to try next? Thanks in advance.
Tim R