🚀 go-pugleaf

  I've got the disks to P/OS version 2.0 now, & I was playing with them the
other day. There seem to be a couple of problems. For example, when I attempt
to boot off of any of them, I get the error :

	0 0 0 4 0 0
	0 0 0 0 0 7			(The "Software Only Error")

  I also acquired a couple of hard drives, & only found one hard drive that
would work. With the other hard drive, whenever I try to boot the computer,
I get the error :

        -----
	|0 1| 0 3 7 7		(Errors in boxes are inverted)
        --------------
        |1 7  7 7 7 6|
	--------------

  This one the book says is a hardware error of some sort. It seems to be
the drive though, because both controllers I have bombed with this error.

  Is there any documentation on how to decode these nice little error
numbers into something that translates to human-speak?

  Also, while the hard disk stuff was loaded, I attempted to go through the
"tutorial". I got most of the way through chapter 0.1 (?) when all of a
sudden the machine began giving me these "File MMM001 not found" error
messages, & I couldn't do anything (Exit/Resume didn't do anything, Do/Help
gave me these file errors). I had to turn the machine off. Could this point
to the floppies I got being damaged?

  I looked at them with the DEC file commands, & other than the fact there
weren't too many files there, I didn't get any errors. Is there any way to
verify a disk?

  And, how long should it take DECUS to process my application? I sent it a
couple of weeks ago, & haven't heard anything, so I'm wondering how long I
should wait before bothering them. ;)

  Well, that's it for now.
					Thanks, <Mowgli>
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