DEC TZ885 mini-library (nearly OT :)

[Jules Richardson]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:06 +0000, Adrian Graham wrote:
> These libraries are either extremely confused or extremely knackered; it
> seems like they never do an actual hardware reset at powerup, just carry on
> where they left off. I've found some button combinations that allow you to
> view diagnostics as long as the robot isn't going nuts (rare) but I haven't
> found which button actually selects said test or function. Also, 2 of them
> don't open the drive door when expected so the tape bounces off repeatedly
> until the robot gives up....

you need to treat them to a bit of this:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/electricstuff/esd.html

:-)