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
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Northern Arizona University / Flagstaff, Arizona
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or uucp: ...arizona!naucse!rrwccjason@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.