Monoprice 479 -- good to know for future reference. Thanks. The DOS I used was pre all of that. I'm talking ancient. I think it's the one I got from Radio Shack with the Floppy when I bought it. It was fairly basic, I think with a simple menu to load, save, delete on floppy, and I think I do remember it needing the floppy drive hooked up to function.
REX sounds super interesting -- possibly the most useful item ever made for the portables. I'll consider buying a SuperREX. On 3/13/2017 9:13 AM, Brian White wrote: 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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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 ?
