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From: Clint.Laskowski <Clint.Laskowski@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: IS MY MINIBOARD WORKING?
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:11:46 GMT
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[NOTE: This is a post about the miniboard... if you don't like
       miniboard posts in comp.robotics you may ignore the rest
       of this message! However, beware... many of us miniboard
       enthusiasists will be posting to comp.robotics because we
       are all getting our CPUs this week :-) and we will want to
       "talk" to each other. So, you can either ignore our posts
       or read them... who knows, maybe you'll learn something or
       we'll learn something from you! If it gets really bad,
       let us know... maybe we'll reconsider the miniboard mail-
       list! - Thanks]

Well, I just got my 6811 CPU from Alan Kilian (thanks Alan!).
I put it in my miniboard, connected the board to my Mac and powered
it up. Everything seemed to go fine (no smoke!) so I downloaded
MON (the Mac version). As soon as I downloaded it, all the motor
LEDs on the miniboard turned "on" (both green and red) and stayed
on. The help info was listed and the system was interactive (ie.
I could read and write memory locations. I could not turn off the
motor LEDs. I tried writing $00 and $FF to location $005D. Is this
normal?

Does anyone have any .s19 files they could send me which I could
download to my miniboard to make sure things are working properly?

I think we should work together to write a "Miniboard Test Program"
which will blink the motor LEDs or something else to let us know
the boards are working properly.

Thanks in Advance! And I hope these are not silly questions ;-)

- Clint
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