Too late now I guess, but just get a Monoprice 479 for $2 and it's the perfect cable for M100/102/200/600 to a pc all pre-made molded in one piece. No null-modem adapters or gender changers needed.
If you need a usb-serial adapter on the pc side, anything works. They all have the right 9pin, male, DTE wiring. I don't know of any dos's that sat at a blank screen waiting. Even teeny has a prompt. I was just playing with a REX last night and loaded all of the roms available on-line plus one that is not anywhere else on-line that came in one of my M100's. They all display some kind of menu. -- bkw On Mar 13, 2017 11:48 AM, "hargarg trurthsr" <fungus...@outlook.com> wrote: > I'm fairly sure it's probably the DOS for the floppy drive now. When I do > call 63012 it prints a line feed and just waits there like it's looking for > the floppy drive. I've ordered some parts to try to make a null modem > cable to connect to the PC. I could probably write a program to send the > ROM content to PC and save on it at some point. I doubt that it's anything > all that interesting. > > Anyway, thanks everyone for tips and pointers. This is a great mailing > list. > > > On 3/13/2017 6:38 AM, Brian White wrote: > > The rombo is a generic device that can have any rom you wanted loaded on > it, like a thumb drive. Doesn't have to be written by or even licensed by > EME. And there are a few different roms that had disk support in them. > > After re-seating, call 63012 still didn't work any better? > > If you're really curious you could mail the rom to one of us who can read > it out. (I could do it easy) Or maybe you have a local electronics shop and > they can read it. If it's a rombo, then it has a standard 28 pin soic > eprom, and they can clip a soic28 test clip on it. > > Or if you want I could tell you exactly what to get and what to do if you > wanted to get an eprom burner and test clip and dump it yourself. Though > finding the BASIC program to do it would be about $75 cheaper! > > Then we can look at it easy. > > On Mar 13, 2017 7:03 AM, "hargarg trurthsr" <fungus...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> The only thing that I can think of is, it might be the DOS for the >> portable floppy drive which I had at one point(I still might somewhere). I >> don't know if EME systems was ever involved with that or whether the >> portable floppy drive required an option ROM to operate. >> >> On 3/13/2017 12:54 AM, Mike Nugent wrote: >> >> EME Systems (Dr. Tracy Allen) offered several products for the "Model T” >> notebooks. Take a look at a back issue of Portable 100 for the ads. For >> example, go to http://www.club100.org/library/libp100.html and near the >> bottom right side of the page, select "Vol. 9 No. 9 Sep/Nov 1992” to >> download or view that issue of P100. (Direct link to the PDF: Vol. 9 No. >> 9 Sep/Nov 1992 <ftp://ftp.whtech.com/club100/doc/p100-9208.pdf>) >> >> See the ad for the XR4 on page 2 as indicated by a PDF reader. (The >> actual magazine's page is CII, the inside of the front cover.) The OWL >> weather logger ad appears on page 19 (magazine page 17). EME’s ROMBO and >> extRAM show on page 28 (magazine page 26). >> >> I don’t know if the EME Systems address and phone numbers are still valid. >> >> I’m sure other mention of EME Systems has been made on this mailing list. >> Tracy himself may even have posted. Maybe check the archives? >> >> I hope this info helps lead you to the info you need. >> >> — Nuge — >> >> >> On Mar 12, 2017, at 9:56 AM, hargarg trurthsr <fungus...@outlook.com> >> wrote: >> >> I have a model 102 with 32k ram expansion which I got in the 80's. I >> just recently rediscovered it in closet and found some rom installed in >> the option rom slot. It has an eme systems logo on it, but I have no >> idea what it is. I've already tried calling 63012 and 63013 and the >> computer just freezes when I do that. Is there any way to figure out >> what the rom is from basic ? >> >> >> >> >
