Date   : Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:57:15
From   : "Richard Gellman" <splodge@...>
Subject: Re: poorly master

> Andrew Benham wrote:
>> Richard Gellman wrote:
>>
>>
>>>A rough guide to the default config. is in the Master Welcome Guide, if
>>>not the following will give you a reasonable configuration:
>>
>> Holding down "R" (or is it "CTRL-R") whilst powering on the machine
>> resets
>> the CMOS RAM back to the default values.
>
> On an Arc, the default values are fairly sane.  On the Master, the
> default values as offered by the above sequence are what Charlie was up
> against at the start of this thread.

This is correct I' afraid. The hold-down-R-and-switch-on method causes the
whole CMOS RAM (except byte 0, the Econet station) to be blanked with
zeroes. From there it is the MOS/FS/Language ROM's interpretation of "0"
that comes into effect, hence mode 0, file system 0, language 0, etc.

>    Eridani Star System

Is that a Tyrian reference I spot?

-- Richard