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From: stevew@ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Dying 1000
Summary: What is a bad \dev\con?
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.051415.14299@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 05:14:15 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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I need some help.  My Tandy 1000 has started giving me this on boot:

[proper BIOS and DOS copyright messages]
Bad or missing \DEV\CON
Command v. 2.11

followed by what looks like a dump of command.com to the screen, over and
over, until I hit the big red button.

This system was working perfectly one week ago.  Since then, I've had this
problem on just about every other boot.  Today, it crashed every time.

If it helps, this is an original 25-1000, 1.01.00 BIOS, 640K, two 360's.
I get the same error using three different boot floppies, so it must be a
hardware problem of some sort.

Looking through the Tandy DOS manual's error list, I couldn't find anything
like "Bad or missing \DEV\CON."  Anybody have any thoughts?

Steve Wootton
stevew@{en,ei,el}.ecn.purdue.edu
stevew@pur-ee.uucp
stevew%ecn.purdue.edu@purccvm.bitnet