Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
See youtube.com/watch?v=A5UaKWK-WKQ : Scott Baker's video series showing the overview and restoration of the "Egyptian MiniFrame" I demonstrate booting at 18:39
Here you can see close-up pictures of all MiniFrame boards that I have mounted on this slab of plywood for demonstration: mightyframe.blogspot.com/2019/06/miniframe-parts-found.html
0:00 Intro
0:13 Status LED Orientation
0:35 MiniFrame Hardware Manual
2:02 Boot and Loader LED Status Code table
2:35 David Gesswein MFM Reader/Emulator
2:48 Motorola 6300 Overview
3:45 Status LED Orientation again
3:53 Terminal Connection
4:34 Terminal Emulation Setup - PuTTY
7:21 MightyFrame Console output for comparison
9:15 MiniFrame Boot Start on Motorola 6300 hard drive image
11:19 Login Successful
18:39 Hard Drive Image setup for the Egyptian MiniFrame
20:37 Login Successful
21:37 Bad Block Table?
See youtube.com/watch?v=A5UaKWK-WKQ : Scott Baker's video series showing the overview and restoration of the "Egyptian MiniFrame" I demonstrate booting at 18:39
Here you can see close-up pictures of all MiniFrame boards that I have mounted on this slab of plywood for demonstration: mightyframe.blogspot.com/2019/06/miniframe-parts-found.html
0:00 Intro
0:13 Status LED Orientation
0:35 MiniFrame Hardware Manual
2:02 Boot and Loader LED Status Code table
2:35 David Gesswein MFM Reader/Emulator
2:48 Motorola 6300 Overview
3:45 Status LED Orientation again
3:53 Terminal Connection
4:34 Terminal Emulation Setup - PuTTY
7:21 MightyFrame Console output for comparison
9:15 MiniFrame Boot Start on Motorola 6300 hard drive image
11:19 Login Successful
18:39 Hard Drive Image setup for the Egyptian MiniFrame
20:37 Login Successful
21:37 Bad Block Table?







![Universal QIC Data Tape Reader Demo v2
WAY more info at http://QICreader.com
An new feature update video is at https://youtu.be/n3Cbzv9l61E
For deeper detail on how to decode the data pulses for QIC-24 format, see http://bit.ly/1fdmokO
For QIC-11 format, see [page coming soon]
And for the very strange Kennedy 6450 format, see http://bit.ly/1RhcdK2
The Saleae Logic Analyzer can be downloaded from
https://www.saleae.com/downloads
A Jun 23, 1987 PC Magazine article referencing the lack of format standards in this area, which is why a format-agnostic reader is so valuable for historical data preservation: http://bit.ly/1lpwtz4
My sites:
http://qicreader.com
http://MightyFrame.com
http://MicrotechM1.blogspot.com Universal QIC Data Tape Reader Demo v2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BfKUJmPSam0/mqdefault.jpg)


