> On Apr 24, 2017, at 7:37 AM, Peter Cetinski <p...@pski.net> wrote: > >> >> Just picked up a TRS-80 Model 12, and it boot to the "insert disk >> prompt" ... Yay! >> >> Jim > > > You can find the MC68000 board set (you’ll need a CPU board and at least one > memory board) on eBay quite often. In most cases, it will be the Model 16 > 6Mhz board which will allow you to run TRS-XENIX 1.x. If you’re lucky, > you’ll find the Model 6000 8Mhz board which will allow you to run Xenix 3.2. > Finding a card cage is the hard part. These are extremely rare but do pop up > from time to time. There is another option called the Hans-02 and 03 > adapters created by Hans Rietveld which is a modern replacement for the card > cage. You can find them on Ian Mavric’s site. > > http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/Hans/ > <http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/Hans/>
Correction: You’d want the Hans 03 and 04 In regards to the keyboard, the later Model 12/16B/6000 keyboards are hard to find. The Model II keyboard is more common. You can easily use the Model II/16 keyboard with these by creating a new 5pin DIN cable and switching a few of the keyboard input pins and swapping the gender of the connector.
