Date   : Wed, 07 Aug 1991 22:39:47 GMT
From   : cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!ephillip%magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Earl W Phillips)
Subject: This televideo thing...update

Well, the genuis of the day is Brett(sp?) Laverman, who figured out
why this here televideo wasn't sending anything to the screen, even tho'
everything seemed to be in working order..... it seems that televideo,
in a momentary spurt of comedy, swapped the terminal and printer RS232's
on the cpu. I plugged the screen into it, and away we went. Of course,
now there's a new slew of problems. 

1) It seems to boot up off the floppy, which I think it calls a>
   
2) The harddrive (hd) seems to be copnfigured to be the b> & c>
drives. b> is ok, but c> is trashed with sector problems. I'm going
to attempt to format some floppies and dump the contents of b> to
them, then reformat the hd. Anybody got any docs on this procedure?
Also, anyone know how I can get it to boot off the hd w/o a floppy
in the drive?

3) When I type dir at the a> prompt, I get a LOTTA stuff. Can all
this be on one little old floppy? Or is it mebbe somehow running
the dir of b> ?

4) Is it possible to obtain manuals for this thing, or is that a
pipedream?

5) It seems to have a connection for a paralell printer. Is it a
straighforward connection, and works immediately upon, say, sending
stuff to the printer in WS, or do I gotta run some funky printer
driver/control program too? I'd REALLY like to use one of today's
high speed printers with this thing. That and the hd is the only
reason I'm playing with this thing!

6) A modem. Where/how to connect it, since it seems nothing came
outta the other RS232 connector when I had the terminal hooked to it.

7) The terminal that came with it seems to require a lot of key
punching just to get it going; I gotta reset the baud rate, etc
everytime I turn it on. Can I just use a simple old dumb terminal,
preset to the proper baud rate, and leave it at that?

Well, there's the update! Any further advise is appreciated!

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