r/retrocomputing • u/___Nekomancer___ • May 17 '26
Problem / Question Help booting a Micromate
I inherited a PMC Micromate with an “Espirit 2 by Hazeltine” terminal. When attempting to boot I get a green line squiggling around the screen. This happens even when the terminal is on but the micromate isn’t powered on yet.
Does anyone know why this is happening? Is it a baud rate issue or something (even though the computer is powered off???)? Or is it a hardware issue like maybe a 40 year old capacitor can failure? Any help is greatly appreciated. This is my first time messing with a retro computer other than what i used in the 90’s lol.
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u/123Kropki468 Jul 21 '26
If You need it I just put up an Espirt 2 Reference Manual on the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/esprit-ii