20-09-2023, 09:29 AM
From my recent purchase of Microbee material there was a manual titled Microbee Testing Disks. An A5 sized manual 12 pages long. Scanned at 600dpi and converted to a seachable PDF as usual. Unfortunately, there were no disks provided for these programs, can anyone help there?
The Manual (and programs) were produced by the Schools Computing Branch of the Education Department of Western Australia. The testing disks consist of 2 disks and the Manual shows the contents for them are -
MICROBEE TEST DISK 1
Use of the SELFTEST program
Instructions
Error Reports
Use of the BACKUP program
MICROBEE TEST DISK 2
Use of the DTEST2 program
Instructions
Summary of options
Information in the summary
DTEST2 test procedure
Action to be taken on error detection
The SELFTEST program tests the operation of keyboard, memory and I/O ports on the 64K and 128K MicroBee. It may also be used to test the slave units on network systems.
The DTEST2 program tests the operation of floppy disk drives, the M drive and screen memory on the 128K MicroBee. It does not test program memory.
They appear to be 2 handy programs to have and use, so if anyone has either of SEFTEST or DTEST2 programs, please let us know. We have the BACKUP program & manual, as previously released on 01-08-2023.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Documentation\Manuals\Software folder we placed
microbee_testing_disks_manual.pdf
The Manual (and programs) were produced by the Schools Computing Branch of the Education Department of Western Australia. The testing disks consist of 2 disks and the Manual shows the contents for them are -
MICROBEE TEST DISK 1
Use of the SELFTEST program
Instructions
Error Reports
Use of the BACKUP program
MICROBEE TEST DISK 2
Use of the DTEST2 program
Instructions
Summary of options
Information in the summary
DTEST2 test procedure
Action to be taken on error detection
The SELFTEST program tests the operation of keyboard, memory and I/O ports on the 64K and 128K MicroBee. It may also be used to test the slave units on network systems.
The DTEST2 program tests the operation of floppy disk drives, the M drive and screen memory on the 128K MicroBee. It does not test program memory.
They appear to be 2 handy programs to have and use, so if anyone has either of SEFTEST or DTEST2 programs, please let us know. We have the BACKUP program & manual, as previously released on 01-08-2023.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Documentation\Manuals\Software folder we placed
microbee_testing_disks_manual.pdf
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