Date   : Mon, 05 May 1997 12:36:53 +0100
From   : Mr M F Scholes <m.f.scholes@...>
Subject: Re: Re: Info about BBC micro

David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> The one thing I can't remember is what a B+ would say at switch on.
> (They look physically identical to B's).
> 
It would have 64k or 128k instead of 32k on the startup screen.

> Lets presume you have a Master.  If you hold down the * key on the numeric
> keypad while switching on it should land you at a * prompt. At that
> prompt you should be able to do *help to get the OS dversion
> and other ROMS in place, *BASIC to get to BASIC or *status
> to show you the CMOS RAM settings.
> 
> *configure noboot
> *configure nomount
> 
Would this get round the ADFS problem I mentioned? I recommend
DELETE-Power on, but I not sure what the standard configaration is? What
does nomount do? I assume stops ADFS mounting a disk on break?

> Should give you a machine which starts up at some type of prompt.

BASIC it you DELETE-Power on, *Configure language <number> (In decimal,
ie 14 not E for view) for anything else.

Mark