Re: [M100] I killed my M100s

One simple thing is just the memory battery needs to charge before the machine works. If it's been turned off a long time, then the memory battery needs to charge up for a few hours first. Or at least say 30 minutes though that may not be enough. It charges any time it's plugged in to the wall

Re: [M100] FB100 disk communication error

These both work. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/cui-devices/DS04-254-2L-04BK/11310925 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/w%C3%BCrth-elektronik/418127160904/5208901 It's annoying how tiny the actuator is, but I couldn't find any that were short enough yet had big actuators

Re: [M100] Failed "," key

rote: Just one thing at this time... took the switch out and checked it with a multimeter, it is the switch On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 00:26, Brian K. White wrote: I had to search to find: "There is exactly one key on my m100's keyboard that rufuses to work, the K key."

Re: [M100] Model 100 - LCD Shows Pixels Only

Examples about the ram sockets: A 100 motherboard, round sockets: http://www.mvcsys.de/doc/remem_pics/full/mainboard.jpg By contrast Olivetti usually (but not always) has leaf style: https://ascii.jp/img/2022/03/03/3331148/o/e1be81b188aad285.png -- bkw On 3/24/24 15:46, Eric wrote: It's been

Re: [M100] Model 100 - LCD Shows Pixels Only

Well, I recommend https://github.com/bkw777/Model_T_RAM but of course I would :) But not just for that obvious reason. If you want to buy them, the GGLabs one is quite good, but only specifically the updated version that fixes a standby battery drain: https://gglabs.us/node/2312 It's the

Re: [M100] unexpected tpdd failure mode

uspect the only way to fix this would be to bore out the hub at least 1-2mm and glue in a compatible piece of plastic with an ID suitable for pressing onto the shaft and an OD that is a tight fit into the bored hole. Jeff Birt -Original Message- From: M100 On Behalf Of Brian K. White Sent:

Re: [M100] Failed "," key

should have watched your video before I shot my mouth off; now I see that the 102's keyswitches are different that the 100's. Where can I get the keycap tool? On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 00:26, Brian K. White <mailto:b.kenyo...@gmail.com>> wrote: I had to search to find: "There

[M100] unexpected tpdd failure mode

Encountered an unexpected way for a tpdd to fail. I have a Purple Computing drive I got a couple years ago that never worked. But it almost worked. The cpu and sensors and motor control actually all worked fine. You can send it commands and it responds correctly, you can read the state of the

Re: [M100] Failed "," key

I had to search to find: "There is exactly one key on my m100's keyboard that rufuses to work, the K key." What was anyone supposed to do with that? What I said below and the video wouldn't help with a 100. It only applies to a 102. 100 has a totally different kind of keyswitch, and no

Re: [M100] mvt100 and the pc terminal

it... Later, Will On 3/18/24 9:05 PM, Brian K. White wrote: MVT100 the hardware is the serial-to-video part of an ordinary serial terminal, used as a display output only, no keyboard, one-way communication from host to screen, no keyboard to host. And just the electronics, ie instead of

Re: [M100] mvt100 and the pc terminal

MVT100 the hardware is the serial-to-video part of an ordinary serial terminal, used as a display output only, no keyboard, one-way communication from host to screen, no keyboard to host. And just the electronics, ie instead of having a screen, it has a vga out.

Re: [M100] Got RexCPM working and CP/M, too, now what?

the moment) Having said that, the oldest would have been 8 years ago, so I don't have the same 30years of experience regarding leaking characters. Doug On Sun, 17 Mar 2024, 11:44 am Brian K. White, <mailto:b.kenyo...@gmail.com>> wrote: You can run plugged in to the wall for all n

Re: [M100] Using CP/M for assembly work

On 3/16/24 21:05, Kenneth Pettit wrote: On 3/16/24 5:46 PM, Brian K. White wrote: Thanks, and don't worry about it. It is simple enough for me to just hook up a 100 and save a file, and then I'll know everything. "Everything"!  Wow, that's an impressive M100

Re: [M100] Using CP/M for assembly work

On 3/16/24 20:37, Stephen Adolph wrote: Not a rexcpm function.  It is handled by import and export written by Philip. I can say that I believe import and export use tpdd routines that mirror the rex routines and are based on Code built by Wilson van alst. I'd have to do some work to

Re: [M100] Got RexCPM working and CP/M, too, now what?

icad on the board, right?  Thanks, Will On 3/16/24 3:21 PM, Brian K. White wrote: I summarize REX as: "An on-board software-controlled option rom library and ram image library." That's the shortest way I've found to say what it does, but that's not the same as saying what it's good for o

Re: [M100] Using CP/M for assembly work

On 3/16/24 13:48, Stephen Adolph wrote: regarding file transfer, use IMPORT or EXPORT in CP/M.  Included in package. These programs access a "TPDD".  Filenames are 8.3 format, cheers Steve What is the ATTR byte? Presumably F ? And is that fixed-length space-filled like what Floppy or WP-2 do

Re: [M100] Got RexCPM working and CP/M, too, now what?

On 3/16/24 01:50, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Laddiealpha and DLplus do the same thing, they're just different implementations of the server/disk side of the tpdd protocol. There are some differences in how they map to/from 6.2 filenames and how they deal with misnamed ASCII BASIC files. Probably

Re: [M100] Got RexCPM working and CP/M, too, now what?

I summarize REX as: "An on-board software-controlled option rom library and ram image library." That's the shortest way I've found to say what it does, but that's not the same as saying what it's good for or why you want one. Because of the particular features and limitations of a M100,

[M100] Uploaded Model 600 service manual

Finally scanned and uploaded the Model 600 Programmers reference and Service Manual. https://archive.org/details/tandy_600_26-3901_programmers_reference_and_bios_specification/ https://archive.org/details/tandy_600_26-3901_servicemanual/ Note that archive.org web viewer kind of destroys it,

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 - firmware dumping and reverse engineering

This doesn't matter but on the TPDD1, if you set the dip switches to OFF ON ON ON, then you can dump the rom at 19200, and in that case I need to add a sleep after each S-record. I added 30ms just based a note for something else somewhere in the service manual that you should wait 25ms to

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 - firmware dumping and reverse engineering

This is great for making the emulators and clients definitive instead of full of mysteries and "here we recite the words lest the gods be angry". Can you see why command 0x11 works as a synonym for 0x33? And why does 0x0F respond with the 0x38 return block? When neither of those are commands.

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 - firmware dumping and reverse engineering

pace, and also decode the functionality. As i figure out more I'll update my GitHub and this list. Darren Clark On 1/24/24 19:36, Brian K. White wrote: I'm currently parsing the returned ascii hex dump to generate the binary, but could you possibly make a version that just sends the raw bi

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 - firmware dumping and reverse engineering

I've added a rom_dump command to pdd.sh https://github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh You just say "rom_dump filename" and it dumps the rom to filename as binary. Accepts rom_dump or dump_rom equally. If you don't give a filename, it just prints the hex to the screen. $ pdd rom_dump pdd1_rom.bin Works

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 service manual PDF now available.

was the status command. He sends it, and then only if that fails, then does 0x07. So it was even more deliberate than it already looked. Don't ask me why! -- bkw On 1/10/24 10:49, Brian K. White wrote: The TPDD2 service manual in all of its glory... While going through starting to update dl2 with all

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 service manual PDF now available.

The TPDD2 service manual in all of its glory... While going through starting to update dl2 with all this new info, I also tried a new (old) DOS I recently found called PAKDOS by James Yi. http://tandy.wiki/TPDD_client:PAKDOS And it tries to use a command 0x47 every time it does a directory

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 service manual PDF now available.

On 1/9/24 17:58, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Seek/Tell is a community extension to the TPDD file-access-mode protocol             // Seek (Ken Pettit's proposal) for random access             // file must have been opened in mode 2 or 4             // ZZ, $09, $05, (type: Begin = 1, Current =

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 service manual PDF now available.

The TPDD2 service manual in all of its glory... https://archive.org/details/tpdd-2-service-manual I had previously discovered request formats 0x11 and 0x33 which I just called UNK11 and UNK33, not yet documented anywhere at the time. Both do

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 service manual PDF now available.

On 1/8/24 22:37, Brian K. White wrote: Doesn't really answer all questions. What IS the whole memory map that those 4 bytes come from, and what even do those 4 bytes mean? Is there really a larger field that just always happens to be only 4 out of 16 bytes used, or are those 4 bytes all

Re: [M100] Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 service manual PDF now available.

On 1/8/24 12:22, bir...@soigeneris.com wrote: The TPDD2 service manual in all of its glory... https://archive.org/details/tpdd-2-service-manual Jeff Birt Oh man awesome. A real reference for the error codes and other software bits...

Re: [M100] Model 100 - LCD Shows Pixels Only

Anything anywhere on the bus could be holding an address line high since they're all attached to essentially the same wire, so, pull the main rom, see if it's still stuck. If so, pull the ram even though that does mean desoldering which requires some care & technique to avoid damaging the

Re: [M100] Gold Card v7.10 2x256Kb IC Card expansion for M100/T102 from 1988

me down…” On Dec 22, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Brian K. White wrote: ...and the reason I noticed was I was hoping maybe the goldcard worked the same as the node rampac (not physically but the interface & api, and so maybe the rom could work on minindp. No and no :) On 12/22/23 05:51, S

Re: [M100] Gold Card v7.10 2x256Kb IC Card expansion for M100/T102 from 1988

e my directory with the file you posted. :-) Again, thanks, Steve — Greetings from Steve Baker Gravity brings me down... On Dec 22, 2023, at 12:24 AM, Brian K. White wrote: Steve, I just noticed that the GoldCard 7.1 rom image is wrong in your Club100 directory. It's a copy of the DISK+ 3.1

[M100] Portcomm

Apparently at one time Club100 sold a MS-DOS TPDD server called Portcomm. Anyone ever seen it? I can find nothing on Club100 or anywhere else. https://archive.org/details/P100-Magazine/1989-11/page/22/ -- bkw

Re: [M100] Gold Card v7.10 2x256Kb IC Card expansion for M100/T102 from 1988

t; wrote: I would never ask to break something. If it has screws or obvious snaps, and you're comfy then fine, otherwise don't think one second about it. Thanks for dumping the rom and the pics. On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:07 PM Steve Baker <mailto:stevebake...@gmail.com>> wrote: From

Re: [M100] MiniNDP

6 N=INP(131) :N=N+INP(131)*256 :RETURN Still has the IF in the loop instead of making the poke loop into a gosub just because this way comes out shorter to type, and that really is the more important feature in this special case. On 12/16/23 19:07, Brian Brindle wrote: Nice! On Sat, Dec

Re: [M100] MiniNDP

29,1 5 ?"."; :NEXT :?"type CLEAR 0,"S":NEW" :SAVEM "RAMDSK",S,E,X 6 N=INP(131) :N=N+INP(131)*256 :RETURN| And line 5 can actually be reduced to just: |5 NEXT :CA||L||L X| -- bkw On 12/16/23 12:57, Brian K. White wrote: I now have a working manual B

Re: [M100] MiniNDP

4/23 14:46, Brian K. White wrote: I think I'm getting there with figuring how to access the hardware from BASIC. Select bank 0 block 0 OUT129,0 "129" selects bank 0, "0" selects block 0 from within that bank read a byte, which will be byte #0 of this block INP(131) Read and pr

Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

there. On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 04:23:11PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote: Communication all looks good actually. Cabling and serial port are solid. The problem is only when it issues the initial dirent() as part of the directory listing process, and gets a hardware fault error code from the drive

Re: [M100] MiniNDP

wasn't actually parsing much but just starting at a hardcoded expected offset, and maybe actually reading the file length since a .CO contains it right there easy to read. -- bkw On 12/13/23 01:49, Brian K. White wrote: MiniNDP now supports 512k and the Bank button in RAM100.CO / RAM200.CO

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

anPi. That was going great till I managed to get my hands on one of the MiniNDPs Brian K White made and now I'm all about his recent 512K upgrade. Never thought I'd get to play with an NDP so this is exciting stuff. I have a WP-2 and have tried to use the TanPi on it, but usually ended up frustr

Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

heck() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_check() tpdd_wait: 1:2300 tpdd_read: l=2 12 01 ocmd_read_ret: reading 2 bytes (data & checksum) tpdd_rea

Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

I should write up some steps to verify things, both for the cable and for pdd.sh. It's one thing to say "do this to make this" but then when it doesn't work, then what? Is something broken or did you get a step wrong or are the directions wrong? One thing is with the solder blob in place, you

[M100] MiniNDP

MiniNDP now supports 512k and the Bank button in RAM100.CO / RAM200.CO is functional. https://github.com/bkw777/NODE_DATAPAC#minindp Now to figure out how to operate it from BASIC to reimpliment the lost BOOT program that apparently could read a copy of RAMDSK.CO from the device without

Re: [M100] breadboard node datapac

On 11/26/23 23:56, Dave Everett wrote: If it were me, and it's not. I would carefully replace each wire with a low to the board wire and double-check everything. I have rushed in to this kind of thing before and regretted it. Surprisingly that monstrosity didn't work. This slightly better

Re: [M100] MiniNDP 512 (was Re: FlexROM with REX#)

at 9:50 AM Brian K. White wrote: On 11/27/23 11:48, runrin wrote: Do you know if it's possible to dump the original ROM using the programming adapter for the FlexROM 100? Maybe. There are two things to worry about and I'll just think out loud right here. 1 The programming adapter present

Re: [M100] MiniNDP 512 (was Re: FlexROM with REX#)

On 11/28/23 11:45, Mike Stein wrote: Why not just dump it out of the M100 directly? That makes much more sense really. -- bkw

Re: [M100] MiniNDP 512 (was Re: FlexROM with REX#)

On 11/27/23 11:48, runrin wrote: Do you know if it's possible to dump the original ROM using the programming adapter for the FlexROM 100? Maybe. There are two things to worry about and I'll just think out loud right here. 1 The programming adapter presents a pinout for a 28C256, not a 27C256

Re: [M100] TPDD/TPDD2 Floppy Drive Belts and TPDD2 Boot Floppy

On 11/27/23 15:54, runrin wrote: I've actually had my eye on both of these listings for a while, but I've held off due to the high prices of TPDD2s. I will likely get an FB100 eventually, since that seems like the cheapest option. I assume there is a similar utility floppy for the TPDD1. You

Re: [M100] Brother FB100 Drive

On 11/26/23 11:21, Scott McDonnell wrote: So, I ended up buying a Brother FB100 disk drive because I stumbled on one for a good price. I already have the backpack drive, so a real TPDD wasn't a necessary item for the price they are selling for. I replaced the belt, cleaned the head, and

Re: [M100] Model T clock doubler

None of the file links work, but I'm sure it *will* be awesome. Sounds super. On 11/18/23 10:54, Stephen Adolph wrote: Hi everyone, I've been working towards finishing off my project for increasing the speed of the Model T laptops.  The idea is to create a (relatively) easy to make and

[M100] MiniNDP 512 (was Re: FlexROM with REX#)

On 11/16/23 01:15, Brian K. White wrote: Basically A0-A7 and D0-D7 both use the same 8 physical pins, at different times. When ALE is high, those pins are address, when ALE is low, those pins are data. Basically the low 8 bits of the bus to be used for both address and data at different

Re: [M100] FlexROM with REX#

3 at 10:05:44PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote: REX# does not provide any software main rom feature, only REX Classic does. You can use a FlexROM as just an ordinary re-writable rom to replace the stock one, but you would need to open up the machine to re-write the eeprom (or flash, there is also a fla

Re: [M100] FlexROM with REX#

REX# does not provide any software main rom feature, only REX Classic does. You can use a FlexROM as just an ordinary re-writable rom to replace the stock one, but you would need to open up the machine to re-write the eeprom (or flash, there is also a flash version). You just install a jumper

[M100] QUAD with battery

I managed to stuff a battery onto a QUAD https://github.com/bkw777/reQUAD/ -- bkw

Re: [M100] file transfer

Does it work with anything else? Can you use the same usb-serial adapter with Putty and TELCOM? Does it work on some other computer? Or on the same computer but booted to a live linux thumb drive? You shouldn't need any manually installed driver for any of these usb-serial adapters. It's

Re: [M100] Intermittent problem at higher baud rates on RS-232 interface

to disable this loop back. They didn’t put jumpers on the loop back options. Sacrificing one of those gender changers was the lazy way to fix it. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2023, at 6:57 PM, Brian K. White wrote: On 9/27/23 16:01, Jesse Bertier wrote: Fellow M100 Enthusiasts: I kept

Re: [M100] Intermittent problem at higher baud rates on RS-232 interface

On 9/27/23 16:01, Jesse Bertier wrote: Fellow M100 Enthusiasts: I kept at it, trying all the various suggestions from the group.  I finally solved the issue - the TNC had a loopback connection from DTR to DSR.   The problem disappeared entirely when I removed that loopback connection the TNC

Re: [M100] file transfer

If you don't want to figure out the wiring and yourself, then you need specifically one of these cables (any of the links), http://tandy.wiki/Model_T_Serial_Cable You need that same cable no matter what software you're using on either end, TELCOM, BASIC, a tpdd server & client, putty,

Re: [M100] REXCPM battery

On 9/22/23 18:09, Brian White wrote: > Took some measurements > > This is with the BAT54C diodes. > > > While not installed in 100: > BATT  2.99v > RAM_RST  2.91v 7uA > SRAM VCC  2.76v > > > While installed in 100, power on, wall power, original tandy 6v adapter: > RAM_RST  4.85v > BATT,

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

to arrive now. I'll report back and share my experience after getting one together - //Ken *From:* M100 on behalf of Brian K. White *Sent:* Tuesday, September 19, 2023 10:18 PM *To:* m100@lists.bitchin100.com *Subject

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

for those to arrive now. I'll report back and share my experience after getting one together - //Ken *From:* M100 mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com>> on behalf of Brian K. White mailto:bw.al...@gmail.

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

keep the qwiic connector. I have tested the 102/200 board now too. good to go. I don't have a pcbway or gerbers up for that yet but will shortly. -- bkw On 9/19/23 04:29, Brian K. White wrote: My boards came in and at least the model 100 one works fine. There's room, but no good way to so

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

, though I'm sure most normal people would prefer to have it on a connector. //Ken S. *From:* M100 on behalf of Brian K. White *Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2023 10:16 PM *To:* m100@lists.bitchin100.com *Subject

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

On 9/14/23 21:27, Brian K. White wrote: But somehow there is power differential between gnd and vmem (or whatever the positive side of the big cap is, I say vmem because obviously it powers the sram) on the rexcpm, and 0.7uA of current flowing along RAM_RST. 7uA not 0.7uA! -- bkw

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

://www.adafruit.com/product/4208 -- bkw On 9/14/23 21:26, Brian K. White wrote: Yes to most of your understanding, not yet on the 4-cell test. I just ordered the pcb's yesterday so it'll be about a week. Although there is not much to actually test about the updated board. It's just more of the

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

//Ken S -------- *From:* M100 on behalf of Brian K. White *Sent:* Wednesday, September 13, 2023 3:13:53 AM *To:* m100@lists.bitchin100.com *Subject:* Re: [M100] rexcpm battery Let's give THIS a try... https://photos.app.goo.gl/JaSofo

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

//Ken S -------- *From:* M100 on behalf of Brian K. White *Sent:* Wednesday, September 13, 2023 3:13:53 AM *To:* m100@lists.bitchin100.com *Subject:* Re: [M100] rexcpm battery Let's give THIS a try... https://photos.app.goo.gl/JaSofo

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

ld connect to an unmodified rexcpm. So now we have 120 mah gnd connection polarized plug I think we're looking at at least 2 years of shelf life now. -- bkw On 9/12/23 15:05, Brian K. White wrote: I've done a little more testing. The GND path is backfeeding only via the RAM line. Nothing on /WR.

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

with it. It doesn’t sound like this would work well with that big cap needing to be kept charged. It’d be great if there was a way to take it out of circuit… maybe a jumper that you could remove if you have the REXCPM UPS hooked up //Ken *From: *M100 on behalf of Brian K. White *Date: *Monday

[M100] NODE DATAPAC

The unverified schematic I arrived at from beeping out an original NODE DATAPAC is now verified. Based on that best guess original schematic I made a new schematic that uses 1 256k sram instead of 8 32k sram, but otherwise replicates the original circuit with the way the binary counters

Re: [M100] rexcpm battery

So, even if we have to just live with the inefficient sleeping instead of solving it, a couple AA's or something will be cheap, easy, and last a long time. That will be better than nothing and simple to do. //Ken *From: *M100 on behalf of Brian K. White *Date: *Monday, September 11, 202

[M100] rexcpm battery

I thought I made the slickest thing. https://github.com/bkw777/REXCPM_UPS https://photos.app.goo.gl/i87E4wzimexCR3wL6 I was able to get 60mah of battery onto the system bus interface board for REXCPM, and theoretically that should be able to keep the sram memory for at least a year, but it

[M100] nec- pc-8401 *b*

never saw this before ebay.com/itm/254804030975 NEC PC-8401B , badged as PCE-8025 I only ever heard of pc-8041a "starlet" before the pics show that the rom says pce-8025 inside too, so it's a customized rom at least that far -- bkw

Re: [M100] NODE DATAPAC

al Message- From: M100 On Behalf Of Brian K. White Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2023 11:58 PM To:m...@bitchin100.com Subject: [M100] NODE DATAPAC Don't ask me why, but I think I've replicated the NODE DATAPAC in KiCAD. https://github.com/bkw777/NODE_DATAPAC https://raw.githubusercontent.

Re: [M100] NODE DATAPAC

ded staring will happen,)  Good luck. Lloyd -Original Message- From: M100 On Behalf Of Brian K. White Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2023 11:58 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: [M100] NODE DATAPAC Don't ask me why, but I think I've replicated the NODE DATAPAC in KiCAD. https://github.com/b

Re: [M100] NODE DATAPAC

ually do.(Not totally sure if this extended staring will happen,)  Good luck. Lloyd -Original Message- From: M100 On Behalf Of Brian K. White Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2023 11:58 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: [M100] NODE DATAPAC Don't ask me why, but I think I've replic

[M100] NODE DATAPAC

Don't ask me why, but I think I've replicated the NODE DATAPAC in KiCAD. https://github.com/bkw777/NODE_DATAPAC https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bkw777/NODE_DATAPAC/db347506f5eeb9908348710727fa3f3b53bfd047/PCB/NODE_DATAPAC_128K_256K.svg This is from beeping out the connections of one with a

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 RAM banks and TS-DOS

If you want to get REAL fancy, there is an "OS" called XOS-C by Paul Globman whos whole purpose was to try to turn a 200 into something more useful by using all banks. The files and docs can be found here http://www.club100.org/library/libpg.html start with:

Re: [M100] teeny (or any tpdd client) for German Olivetti M10?

On 5/26/23 14:26, Brian K. White wrote: The dlplus user reports that this worked for them. Thanks much! https://github.com/bkw777/dlplus/issues/7 Forgot, sounds like they also tried Steve's 100-based M10 rom which also worked? That is handy to know that's even possible if true. On 5/20/23

Re: [M100] teeny (or any tpdd client) for German Olivetti M10?

y (or any tpdd client) for German Olivetti M10? __ Originalnachricht ___ Good news. Well a port of teeny should be possible. On Thursday, May 1

Re: [M100] Rex# Crash on an M102

First thing verify the connection to all the pins in the socket. It's a common weak point. No weak/compressed pins, no oxidization, rex# fully seated etc. Otherwise what Steve said, run the install/update tool to reflash the Rex#. -- bkw On 5/25/23 21:27, Charlie Hoey wrote: Hello there! I

Re: [M100] teeny (or any tpdd client) for German Olivetti M10?

jho...@pobox.com>> wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 11:53 AM Brian K. White mailto:bw.al...@gmail.com>> wrote: Has anyone ever heard of any teeny or ts-dos or anything that would run on a German Olivetti M10? A dlplus user is out of luck I think

[M100] teeny (or any tpdd client) for German Olivetti M10?

Has anyone ever heard of any teeny or ts-dos or anything that would run on a German Olivetti M10? A dlplus user is out of luck I think. https://github.com/bkw777/dlplus/issues/7 I have never seen anything, not just teeny but anything. -- bkw

Re: [M100] Modifying TELCOM

On 5/4/23 20:42, mark audacity romberg wrote: I was looking at the disasssembled TELCOM source today, and it seems there’s almost a kilobyte devoted to looking up and dialing phone numbers that could be ditched, which has me thinking that it shouldn’t be too cramped to add hardware

Re: [M100] Lack of info on DIY RAM upgrades

On 4/25/23 20:58, mark audacity romberg wrote: Say y’all, I don’t have a login on the Bitchin 100 Wiki to comment there, but both the 8k and 24k DIY RAM board articles have no actual actionable information—no schematics, no links, no PCB art, nothing but a photo of the 8k, and a photo of the

Re: [M100] PC-8201A UsersGuide - page broken/unreadbale

Thank you. On 4/22/23 14:55, M100 Librarian wrote: I believe I made a good scan of this manual. Here is the link 8201a users guide.pdf *From:* M100 on behalf

Re: [M100] Tpdd1 sector access example code?

On 4/21/23 18:15, Brian K. White wrote: ## unk23 is what the old dlplus called "ts-dos mystery command" ## it's unknown what it *really* means, but it's a reliable way to tell the difference between TPDD1 and TPDD2  without locking up the drive by giving an invalid command to the w

Re: [M100] Tpdd1 sector access example code?

On 4/21/23 18:15, Brian K. White wrote: ## The Sardine dictionary disk uses 128byte sectors correction, must be 256, given the actual transaction shown -- bkw

Re: [M100] Tpdd1 sector access example code?

Ok here is a break down of a transaction to read a single logical sector. It's pdd.sh with debug level 4, interspersed with explanations Below, to cut through everything, all the actual serial port traffic is just the tpdd_read() and tpdd_write() commands. Everything else is just the stuff to

Re: [M100] Tpdd1 sector access example code?

On 4/21/23 09:50, Stephen Adolph wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of an example of tpdd1 sector access code? Thw software manual is ok but actual working code is better. Thanks Steve The software manual actually lays it all out. pdd.sh does client-side sector access for both tpdd1 and 2

Re: [M100] Sardine dictionary files?

On 3/25/23 17:15, mark audacity romberg wrote: How do I get my hands on these? I’ve been Googling for a minute with no luck. —m.a The Sardine dictionary doesn't come in the form of files. It's a raw data disk where the disk is used as raw space, no filesystem or files. I have an image of

Re: [M100] Olivetti M10

On 3/4/23 21:04, Gary Weber wrote: I believe there was a release of Multiplan for the Olivetti M-10. Yep. manual: https://archive.org/details/olivetti-m10-multiplan-english-manual and the rom itself: https://archive.org/details/multiplan_M10 The M10 has a standard dip-28 socket with a

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

Ah, and SWITCH.DSK must be what I thought I remembered seeing before about switching between dvi and other. On 3/2/23 10:29, Brian K. White wrote: See L-DVI.100 On 3/2/23 10:18, grima...@gmail.com wrote: Just tried out BOOT.BA <http://BOOT.BA> and it works pretty well. Only thing I

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

e/time in ALTLCD before clearing the ram, as I think that location ought to be protected. -George On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 9:48 AM Brian K. White <mailto:b.kenyo...@gmail.com>> wrote: I never noticed that, but I just tried it and you're right, the dvi needs the system disk

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

of the M100.) That would be great if possible, you could bootstrap a DVI without the original disk. -George On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 9:11 AM Brian K. White <mailto:b.kenyo...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 3/2/23 07:37, grima...@gmail.com <mailto:grima...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

On 3/2/23 07:37, grima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, Just reading the descriptions in your link and they seem to be exactly what I need. Looks like also D100.BA and DISABL.DVI I would have sworn I saw directions in the user manual, but I don't see anything like that now. There may be yet

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

On 3/2/23 07:31, Brian K. White wrote: On 3/1/23 20:05, B 9 wrote: <https://github.com/hackerb9/M100LE/blob/main/adjunct/jumpdestinations>, |egrep -io '(GO\s*TO|GOSUB|THEN|ELSE|RESTORE|RESUME|RETURN|RUN)(\s*,?\s*[0-9]+)+' | As you can see, I had missed exactly the same subtlety as

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

On 3/1/23 20:05, B 9 wrote: , |egrep -io '(GO\s*TO|GOSUB|THEN|ELSE|RESTORE|RESUME|RETURN|RUN)(\s*,?\s*[0-9]+)+' | As you can see, I had missed exactly the same subtlety as reseq. And yet I see you are handling things

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

On 3/1/23 22:17, grima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The linked document explains how to remove Disk BASIC from memory on a T200. https://archive.org/details/DVI263806Notice Does anyone have the procedure to remove Disk BASIC from an M100?

Re: [M100] BackPack - read data from CLI

The only thing ts-dos is doing differently is it's treating .ba files according to the rules of .ba files, as dictated by the main rom. It's not a ts-dos thing. teeny and floppy etc have to do the same exact thing. On 3/1/23 08:47, bir...@soigeneris.com wrote: You might be sending the SET

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