M.Hockings wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
Rob Park wrote:
Gareth Bult wrote:
Please can we have something on the graphics output such that when
the disk reaches it's maximal mount count and goes off into a disk
check - we get some notification ?
I noticed the same problem. It freaked me right out, I thought it had
hung or something, until I switched VTs and saw what was happening.
There is a spot on the boot screen where you can click and get the
good ol' text startup screen displayed. It's up to you which you
prefer.
Me, I'm old school. I like to SEE what's happening. I was very ticked
off when front panel LEDs went the way of the dodo. Yes, I'm an old
PDP/VAX/S370/Altair/IMSAI guy. Hey, I used to bitswitch in my own
boot loaders back in the day!
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Wow, Rick I'm impressed - if you you like LEDs and switches you GOTTA
be a good guy!
Or just really, really old! :-P
Last night I was rummaging through some boxes to find a switch to fix
something and came across an old 8008 (yes, that is typed right)
computer made by DEC with front panel switches (in octal) to load it
with and lots of lights.
An 8008-based machine or one with 8008 in it's name (e.g. the old PDP8,
which was a 12-bit machine)? I don't recall a DEC 8008-based machine
unless it was one of the original proof-of-concept things prior to the
mistake called the Rainbow. Let's see...MITS made the Altair 8800,
IMSAI made the IMSAI 8080...Polymorphic made the Poly 88...oh, I could
go on and on...
The power supply used to have the bypass
transistor sitting in a bowl of water because I could not afford a
heatsink and a fan to keep it cool enough. Brings back some memories...
In my case, nightmares! I've been down the plastic-bag-and-water or
5-gallon-bucket-of-transformer-oil road myself, so I feel your pain. :-D
Ahhh, but I digress, back to my Fedora machines that have a lowly power
indicating LED.
Well, at least mine have disk activity LEDs, too.
Here at the office we have a thing I made, just to be silly, since some
of our clients refuse to believe they're computers unless they have
blinking lights. It's a bunch of LEDs on various timing circuits. We
call it the "ULD" (useless LED display).
Kind regards,
Mike
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