CompuServe Messages

Peter, Unfortunately, I only had my logic without Mr. Spock's formiable reputation. To this day there is probably still a delay loop in the powerup code because the hardware must be given time to initialize. Somebody missed the fact that the Z80 chip is hardware and won't run the software if it isn't initialized or whatever, i.e., getting to the software delay loop means that the hardware is already doing fine. (Of course, that's not to say that I was always the person with the truest vision. It was the hardware engineer that talked the customer into a Z80 chip instead of an 8080 chip as originally spec'd. Whew! Sometimes we did 'sing from the same music!') Oh well, sometimes the program is written to indulge the customer's and/or the boss's pet conceptions/myths/whatever. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless 'Perfessor Fearless' from the Rocket City! – via Whap!