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From: fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Strange Kaypro problems
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.234234.3270@techbook.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 23:42:34 GMT
References: <1990Nov22.200503.21516@simasd.uucp>
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In article <1990Nov22.200503.21516@simasd.uucp> donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin) writes:
>floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes:
>>
>>The Kaypro monitor ROM has no provision for timeout on the disks.
>>Micro C's ROM and TurboROM both do.
>
>You are right - at least mostly.  On the K10 with 81-302 ROM the drive light
>and motor does timeout.  Whether this is in ROM or O/S I don't know.
>On the KP-2X (81-292), only the drive motor times out.  The light remains on.

  now i'm wondering - do i have a 2x or a 2/83??  on my machine, the motor
times out (in fact, it stops right after the disk access, but the light
stays on.  this thing also has to be the fastest booting-from-the-floppy
machine ever built.  (tick tick tick A>  )
  
  when i open the machine, i'll let you know what numbers i find on the 
board and the roms.  

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