Very interested in how you find those tapes. If they are OK then programming them might be a challenge?
I dug out my 4041 and checked the ROMS- photo of the ROM carrier in my Dropbox here-
I was always under the impression that a boot tape was required to kick it into life and facilitate changing control to the serial port - based on recent posts I now see that may be wrong? Or is that just to use the keyboard? I need to read those posts again. My 4041 has been stashed away waiting for a boot tape to be acquired for quite some time but is that really necessary? The 25 pin RS232 connector on the back of mine is labeled comm 0.
Must admit I have not looked at this problem in some years.
I have no idea re condition of the tape drive in mine but visually it looks OK, as does the whole instrument, both internally and externally.
DaveB, NZ
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Gary,
I have ordered 15 NOS 3M DC100A tapes from EBAY. They are scheduled to arrive Sunday.
I hope the drive bands are still ok - but I may have to replace them with Plastibands.
I will try to format and create a System Verification tape from the files I have recovered and report the results here.
Does your 4041 have the Option 30 Programming Development Option ROMs?
Monty
