Thanks, that helped. I just got it to output serial... and it's PBL 5.1.
I guess that means it's basically a brick then? Any plausible way around? On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Antony Stone < antony.st...@e3.open.source.it> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2012 at 00:17, Edward Robbins wrote: > > > Sorry for 3rd email... > > > > Using a 9V supply the emailer appears to start - email and voice lights > > flash, then after some time the power light comes on when I press power, > > and camera light comes on when I then press video, but the LCD does not > > come on. So I suspect that amstrad were being cheap in choosing such a > high > > voltage PSU - because they didn't want to include a backlight inverter to > > boost the voltage for the LCD backlight. I thus further suspect that I > can > > still talk to the serial port without the full voltage input... so if I > > build a cable, is there a way I can tell which PBL I have from the serial > > output? > > See the first line of http://www.earth.li/%7Enoodles/files/delta.boot(linked > from http://www.earth.li/~noodles/hardware-e3.html). > > Hope this helps, > > > Antony. > > -- > All generalisations are inaccurate. > -- > I'm not impossible, just highly implausible. > > Please reply to the > list; > please don't CC > me. >
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