Date   : Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:06:54 +0000
From   : bmcollier@... (Ben Collier)
Subject: Basic not found

Yes. When I turn the machine on the only message is:

"BBC Computer 32K

Language?"

Sorry, I appear to have paraphrased that rather badly.

I assume the BASIC ROM has become unseated?

On 5 November 2010 18:01, J.G.Harston <jgh@...> wrote:

> Ben Collier wrote:
> > Now while we're at it I have a beeb which is giving me a message saying
> > "Basic not found".
>
> Odd. If the BASIC ROM was unplugged and you issued a *Basic command you'd
> get (after passing around ROMs and the filing system) 'Bad command' not
> 'Basic not found'. You'd get that if you tried to load a nonexistant
> file called 'Basic' on filing systems that suppoer named errors (eg
> SJ MDFS, HADFS).
>
> Can you give more information?
>
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> J.G.Harston - jgh@...
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