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Restoring a Molecular Mark 4
| 13th
May 2000 |
Power
Up. Processor OK, and pretty good attempt at booting from
Disk. LOS reporting lots of status errors from the fixed disk
in the Hawk drive. Could be bad, could be nothing! |
| 15th
May 2000 |
Sorted
out my boot disks, and switched to using the other drive, and it boots! |
| five
minutes later |
Disk
error! Turns out the drive belts had dropped off
inside. 20 minutes graft, and all is well again. |
| Some
time later |
Well
it boots LOS and OS!!! Now need to hook up a laptop, write
some molly code, and capture a disk image for my emulator! |
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Restoring a Distributor
| 27th
April 2000 |
Power
Up. No response from switch panel. Lark drive
seems to getting up to speed and heads loading. |
| 1st
May 2000 |
Cleaning
all the edge connectors and reseating the processor boards seems to have
fixed the processor. Can now set registers (PC, MA, A and
B). Can't set any memory locations. Ni-Cad cells
on static RAM boards look very sickly. |
| 16th
May 2000 |
Replacement
cells have arrived. |
| Some
time later |
Not
a happy machine! Would appreciate some TLC and bringing in from the
cold garage! |
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