Excercising vintage items - was: Commodore 8010 IEEE-488

[Tom Jennings]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Dave Dunfield wrote:

> Good point - I always disconnect drives etc. at first power-up, but one
> area where I've seen people have trouble is in floppy disks - DON'T USE
> THE MASTER DISKETTE ON FIRST ATTEMPT TO BOOT! I always try to find ways
> to backup the disks and boot from a copy if at all possible.

Boot from a junk or blank diskette -- getting recal, head load,
right blinking lights etc let's you trust the thing a
little more.