> Roy Staines wrote: > > Doing some belated spring cleaning, I and my son felt eager to set up the > > Sam Coupe and have a play around. It hasn't been used for a few years and > > when a software disk is put in and F9 is pressed I got error code 53 NO > > DOS. Tried several disks and got the same, does that mean that the > > internal disk drive has died (never woke up)?
If you've got an early sam with version 1 rom (PRINT PEEK 15 prints 10 then ) try doing a: CALL 229385 for a 256K SAM or a CALL 491529 for a 512K SAM if your sams rom is not version 1 (20 for 2.0 rom or 30 for 3.0 rom) then it is most likely that there's no dos on the disk I don't think your drive is worn out. if it was you would get errors like Missing Disk (rubber belt worn or power suply no good) Loading error (bad floppy disk or in the worst case drive head damaged) hope this helps Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.designing.myweb.nl/samcoupe/
