Article-I.D.: sask.343
Posted: Mon Mar 10 11:51:12 1986
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I am the proud new owner of a 512k board for my Atari 800.
I must confess that about the only way to use this memory is
as a Ramdisk, and I do have the program to do this.  

The problem??
   If/When the thing locks up on me and will not respond to
System-Reset, the only thing I can do is to reboot, and lose
everything.  I would like one more avenue to try, that of the
wiring in a button to a 'hard' reset, that is, reset the
microprocessor.  Once upon a time there were articles on how
to do it.  (a wire, a switch, and a pull-up/pull-down resistor)
Anybody remember how to do it??

Part 2:
   Will this solve my problem, or will a hard reset to the
microprocessor reboot the whole machine anyways??


		      Thanks,

			   Warren Long
			   University of Saskatchewan
			   Canada

Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8603140125.AA06057
Posted: Thu Mar 13 19:45:41 1986
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If you will give me your mail address I will send you a sheet
describing the coldstart mod. However, it will not do you much good unless
you have an 8K OMNIMON in the system to take control after resetting the
CPU. Also, I have not had much luck in preserving the contents of the
ramdisk when the CPU locks up. I think the RAM must lose the refresh
when the CPU locks up.

David Young



 
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 10:50:08 1986
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FYI - If the 8K OMNIMON is anything like OMNIMONXL, and you are as serious
about your 800 as buying a 512K upgrade suggests, you certainly shouldn't
waste any time in ordering it.  (Though not on the ARPANET, of course!)

David's phone number, if you want information on OMNIMON, is (214) 235-2146
and his address is:

		CDY Consulting
		421 Hanbee
		Richardson, TX 75080.

						-John Sangster
						jhs @ mitre-bedford.arpa

NOTE:  I have no financial interest in CDY Consulting; I am just a satisfied
customer, having bought OMNIMONXL, the 80-column display upgrade OMNIVIEW,
and the 256KXL 256-K ram upgrade for my 800XL.