[Coco] booted again!

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 20:59, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/7/06 9:06:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>
>jimcox at miba51.com writes:
>>I  believe the power up sequence should  be:
>>
>>MPI->Drives->Monitor->CoCo
>>
>>Power down  should be in the reverse order.  Sorry I
>>haven't had time to dig  out the manuals.
>
>My power strip turns on the Coco, MPI. and floppies all at  once.  
> Then I turn on the hard drives, though really they should  probably
> be turned on first to get up to speed.
>First thing I turn on is the monitor, and last thing turned off.  Just
>  to keep power surges out of the rest of the gear.
>
>There's a lot of folklore about the power-up order of MPI and Coco,
> but I always (well, almost always ;-) have had good luck with
> powering up both at once.  SOmetimes the Coco fails to find Disk
> Basic, so can't boot OS-9, but  that usually means the disk
> controller pack needs to be jiggled around in the slot (best down
> with power OFF).  ==Mike K.

Mine all comes on at the same time because its all running from the same 
pc power supply.  Thats never been a problem.

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