Date   : Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:19:04 -0800
From   : "Michael Lasham" <mlasham@...>
Subject: Broken BBC Master Compact

Hi

I've just purchased an old BBC Master Compact.
I've not used a BBC since about 1984 at school :)
Anyway when I power on I get a continous Beep sound
and one of the following messages on my screen, they
change everynow and then on power on.  The keyboard
bar the reset key does not work.

"Invalid station id"
"BBC MOS" or "BBS MDS"
"BBC Basic >"
"* BBS MOS" or "*BBS MDS"

Pressing the break key resets the system to give the
same fault.  Once I managed to change the resolution of
the screen but nothing else worked still (not sure
how I did it :)  )

Any ideas as to what could be wrong.

I dont have any other devices appart from the system and
monitor.

thanks
Michael.





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