rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Robert Wier) (11/19/90)
OK, yet ANOTHER Rainbow question ... (The story thus far ... I'm bringing up a Rainbow 100 to log weather data every 15 minutes - got the program talking to the instruments (Turbo Pascal under CPM 86), and writing to the disk (WHY did they write the record length to the disk on every record, when the field was fixed? Seems redundant to me... not too mention hard to figure out when you want to read the data elsewhere... but that's another story). Since the primary interest is in getting readings when the weather is BAD (blizzard conditions, 50 mph winds in blowing snow, etc), it is likely that there may be power outages. I'd like to have the Rainbow restart automatically whenever the power comes back on. I've found patches to CPM to do this, but how do you get around the startup screen on the Rainbow? (Ie, Select drive A for start...). If necessary, I can reburn some PROMS if anyone knows what the patch is... MANY THANKS to everyone who has responded so far on my other questions. - Bob Wier -------------- insert favorite standard disclaimers here ---------- College of Engineering Northern Arizona University / Flagstaff, Arizona Internet: rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu | BITNET: WIER@NAUVAX | WB5KXH or uucp: ...arizona!naucse!rrw
ccjason@aggie.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler) (11/20/90)
In article <2922@naucse.cse.nau.edu> rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Robert Wier) writes: > Since the primary interest is in getting readings when the > weather is BAD (blizzard conditions, 50 mph winds in blowing > snow, etc), it is likely that there may be power outages. I'd > like to have the Rainbow restart automatically whenever the power > comes back on. I've found patches to CPM to do this, but how > do you get around the startup screen on the Rainbow? (Ie, > Select drive A for start...). If necessary, I can reburn some > PROMS if anyone knows what the patch is... :) You need a 100B mother board. Bummer, sorry.