Re: PICK R83

2013-11-13 Thread Dick Thiot
David, Are you running the old PICK R83 on a PC? Let's be clear about Dan and Richard's suggestions. VERIFY-SYSTEM (O) will overwrite the existing checksums with the value of the current ABS, not the norm. If you have corrupted or non-standard ABS, the checksums for those ABS is what will be

Re: PICK R83

2013-11-13 Thread David Grenfell
Thanks guys for all your input. This old system had nothing special, i.e. no word processors and no assembly code. It was running ok, so I did the verify-system (o and all is good on the boot now. Dave. From: Dick Thiot Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:12 AM To: jbase@googlegroups.com

Re: PICK R83

2013-11-13 Thread Tony Gravagno
Yeah, bad form to pollute this group with R83 when there are at least four other groups where this discussion would be welcome And exposed to a wider audience which could actually respond. http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Community What _I'd_ really like to talk about is the silly

Re: PICK R83

2013-11-13 Thread Richard Kann
The only R83 one that shows seems to be the old CDP group which is gone. Makes sense as most R83 users are also gone or upgraded to the 21 century. Get rid of that old TRS-80 and get a Heathkit H8! You can gene get a 5 1/2 floppy on it. Richard Kann Comp-Ware On 11/13/2013 3:47 PM, Tony

Re: PICK R83

2013-11-13 Thread Dick Thiot
Tony (and David), First, the TRS-80 Model I rules. Long live the Trash-80! That was my first computer and where I learned BASIC. I converted the old horse race game from a Microdata to the Trash-80 then modified it so that the horses races based on odds then paid off the same way. That is how