On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:27:14 -0500, boB Deering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:13:55 EST, Mr. Dos wrote:
>> I recently got an old at computer that boots up to a screen with numbers
>> across the bottom. (I.E. 1-LOAD 2-SAVE 3-LPT)
>> How do I get to the c: prompt. Do I need special disks? Is this for
>> programming language? Please advise. DosMan.
> Is this possibly a Zentih?
Hello Mr. Dos:
What you have described is perfectly normal behavior for an old computer
that fails to boot. What appears on the screen is the BASIC INTERPRETER,
as it is installed on an on-board ROM. At the back of this computer you
will most probably find an RCA phono jack for connecting the computer to
a cassette drive. Using the BASIC interpreter you may write BASIC programs
and save them to cassete. Also you may load BASIC programs from the cassete
and run them. If you don't have a cassete drive hooked up, you may write
BASIC programs and run them, but you will have no means of saving them.
If you want your computer to boot up with DOS, you will need to turn it
off, then insert a DOS system disk in drive A, then turn it back on again.
WAIT. It will take a long time for it to access the disk, load the system
files and then boot. This is normal for an old computer such as yours.
Sam Heywood
P.S. for Bob Deering: I notice your post is dated 17 November 1999.
Is this a re-send of an old post, or is there a problem with your
system date?
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