10-03-2023, 10:18 AM
Hi River,
Welcome to the cool kids club. Would this be the one you swapped a System 80 for? :-D
As for identification, you can tell most of the details you need from they keyboard layout and what ports are at the back.
Does it have cursor keys? If so it's a Premium. This means you have optional colour!
Does it have a 34 way connector at the back? (If it's a 128k model I'm guessing it will) If so it's a disk drive unit.
Once we've identified which model you have, we can point you to add-ons and peripherals available for you unit :-)
What peripherals did you get. Just the keyboard? Disk Drives?
If it boots to a square cursor, then it's waiting for a boot disk. Apply for access to the repository and there are loads of useful disk images for you to use. There's also service guides, user manuals and a huge amount of good "stuff".
I find one of the most useful peripherals you can add to a disk unit is a Gotek. This allows you to boot straight off disk images.
(If I seem enthusiastic, I'm still relatively new to Microbees myself. I've been trying to diagnose a unit with some "exciting" RAM faults, but I also currently have a working 128k Premium and a 32k "PC 85" model)
Cheers
John
Welcome to the cool kids club. Would this be the one you swapped a System 80 for? :-D
As for identification, you can tell most of the details you need from they keyboard layout and what ports are at the back.
Does it have cursor keys? If so it's a Premium. This means you have optional colour!
Does it have a 34 way connector at the back? (If it's a 128k model I'm guessing it will) If so it's a disk drive unit.
Once we've identified which model you have, we can point you to add-ons and peripherals available for you unit :-)
What peripherals did you get. Just the keyboard? Disk Drives?
If it boots to a square cursor, then it's waiting for a boot disk. Apply for access to the repository and there are loads of useful disk images for you to use. There's also service guides, user manuals and a huge amount of good "stuff".
I find one of the most useful peripherals you can add to a disk unit is a Gotek. This allows you to boot straight off disk images.
(If I seem enthusiastic, I'm still relatively new to Microbees myself. I've been trying to diagnose a unit with some "exciting" RAM faults, but I also currently have a working 128k Premium and a 32k "PC 85" model)
Cheers
John
John "CheshireNoir" Parker
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