#: 13762 S1/General Interest
    29-Dec-91  22:42:45
Sb: #13753-6809 OK, probs remain
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230

I checked it out and that was indeed the problem.  I checked all the 3.5" disks
containing the hard drive and one existing disk and all was in order.  I now
most suspect the 41256 DRAMs as being *one of* my problem areas so I have 16
new ones coming.  If they don't help I'll see about getting a 0K board.  I like
the advantages of a 512K system but that board was a nightmare to install and
has caused so many problems ever since. I may just give in and purchase a true
Tandy board and install it myself; maybe that will be reliable (at that price I
should certainly hope so). My other problem as you may have seen is a dead Slot
Pak.  It may be a while before I can get another one of those.  I was on a
waiting list to get the one I have.  And then have the next one die in 9
months--better get two of 'em.  I'm getting OK results from Ultimaterm 4.1 on
the bitbanger port now that I found my TRS-80 Telephone Interface II acoustic
modem and pulled its 4-pin DIN adapter.  From what I've heard about /t1 at bps
rates >0 I suppose I'm through with sterm and SuperComm for a while. And nearly
OS-9 too by being back down to 128K with 56K free on startup (I was getting
360-368K depending on boot disk used).