Booting the

Dorado

The Dorado has several flavors of "boot button". Here is a list of options you have when booting the Dorado. "Button pushes" refer to pushing the standard boot button at the back of the keyboard. Note that fast "clicks" do not work -- the base board micro-computer may miss them, and that may cause it to miscount the number of button pushes.

This won’t work if Midas is running in the controlling Alto.

Button PushesAction
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1"Alto style" boot
2Baseboard boot using the current microcode
3Baseboard reload & boot. Baseboard will reload Dorado with an Alto emulator and boot.
4Power down. takes about 45 seconds.
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>4Ignore (what to do if you think you’ve pushed too quickly or too many)
"long push"Ignore (another option if you’ve pushed too quickly or too many). Long pushes happen if the buton stays down for 2.5 seconds or longer.

When the Dorado is powered down by the baseboard, a single button push will effect loading the microcode and booting the machine. If you wish to turn off the power switch on the Dorado, please wait for the display to go blank (after a 4-push action) before switching off the power.

[ivy]<doradoSource>bootDorado.poster gmcd: July 27, 1979 3:59 PM