Customer Setup of the NCR PC-8. - THE CORE MEMORY

TABLE 16SETTING COMPUTER TO BOOT FROM HARD DRIVEEnd TimeH: M: S Activityboots from the copied disk (A drive) but still asks for dateand time. why? must be something in ROM that promptsdate and time. date is ok, time isn'tcheck if boot from hard drive. turn off machine and thenturn on machine, error message "no operating system onfixed disk."find out why it doesn't work. look for instructions forinstalling operating system on hard disk. check gettingstarted in owner's manual. found installing options (forhard drive.) Paul: "Oh, we have to format the hard drive."what would that be under?read fdisk and format instructionsbeeps if hit keyboard, not sure why.reboot. still prompting for date & time, why? change bdrive C, dir command yields error "Non-DOS disk readingdrive C"run fdisk. several actions. realize that disk alreadypartitioned. hit escapereboot13:40 I Totalformat hard disk (format c:/s/v). prompts if want to format.while formatting discussion of lights on system box (shouldbe labeled, light should be on the on/off switch). noticescreen is not flickering as it did in the color/graphics modebefore. format complete.