The little rectangle connector is easy too. A standard 2x4 idc female will plug right in, complete with polarity key.
On Mar 15, 2017 3:14 AM, "hargarg trurthsr" <fungus...@outlook.com> wrote: > So the TPDD was used with Brother sewing machines as well ? You learn > something new everyday... > > I always thought the cable was just a cable. Didn't know it had parts in > it. Someone sold three of them last year on ebay for $35... I guess I > could wait and see if anyone else sells them or try to make one. The 25 db > part is easy enough to find, but I don't know who sells the square plug > that goes into the TPDD. I don't think I'd even use the TPDD, but I guess > at this point, it's like a novelty item. > > On 3/14/2017 5:12 PM, Brian White wrote: > > There is documentation how to build the cable, somewhere on club100 or > bitchin100 or in the M100SIG archive. Unfortunately it's an active cable > with electronics in it. It converts from rs232 to ttl, and does a peculiar > dirty trick to rob power from the rs232 port. > > http://ratthing.com/club100/tpdd.do > > While looking in your stuff, look for a cable that is beige colored and > flat like an 8 or 10 conductor telephone cable. > > If you want to use the drive, you will also need a new belt. the one > inside is turned to goo by now. > > google or ebay search "FRW 8.5 belt" > > You'll need some alcohol and swabs to clean the tar up. > > Power is easy. Lot's of universal power packs have a 6v setting and > reversable polarity and a barrel connector. > > I used this one right off the shelf at WalMart for a while: > http://www.powerline.com/universal-1300 > > But then I found Radio Shack 273-1763 and Adapata Plug "M". But you have > to get those from ebay and other sellers that happen to have some. It's > tiny, doesn't block other plugs, light weight (no transformer), 6v, > reversable polarity, ridiculously over-spec (1800ma while the devices only > draw 400ma), and says Radio Shack on it. > > I got several of those and use them on the tpdd-2, a couple model 100s and > a model 102, and a CCR-82 tape drive. They all take the same power. > > Or of course, simply 4 AA batteries. :) > > On Mar 14, 2017 8:25 AM, "hargarg trurthsr" <fungus...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Just found the portable drive. It's the second version. I can't find the > power cable or the rs-232 cable, though > > On 3/13/2017 5:28 PM, Brian White wrote: > > The dos that comes with the disk drive is loaded from the disk drive from > a file on disk (the first time), and you have to kick the process off by > typing in a tiny bit of BASIC manually first, which does listen on the com > port. You need the Utility Disk that came with the drive, or a copy. If you > have lost it, there are a few people here who will make you a copy. There > is no way to do it over the internet (yet). Someone has to make a copy from > another copy, usng the same model of drive, and mail you an actual floppy, > and you must then make a few copies yourself the first thing you do when > you get it. > > But once that dos is instlled, it never sits at a blank screen. It makes a > file listing menu. > > The Utility Disk is different for TPDD vs TPDD-2. So if you need to ask > for a copy, you have to know which kind to ask for. > > Looks like you have your manual at least, and looks like it's for TPDD. > > REX is really cool. Stephen (Steven?) Adolph has kindly published all of > the files and info necessary to build a REX onesself, and after several > weeks I managed to do it and produce two working REXs. Now that I have > taken the raw info and made a recipe I can follow, and already have all the > special software installed and working, I could repeate the process a lot > faster. The goal is, hopefully someone ELSE could follow the recipe too. > It's eleventy-seven hundred steps, but it doesn't actually require all that > much in tools and it's mostly written down now. It could be fleshed out > with a little more detail, but it worked for me. > > There is also a few other forms of DIY option rom modules that are > essentially the same as the old EME systems Rombo, but now open source. > Anyone can go on OSHPark and order a few PCBs for about $5 for 3. and get > the 28C256 or 28F256 (depending on the type of board) from digikey or ebay > or wherever. These only act exactly like an original simple option rom, > except you can write them yourself with a $30 programmer, and re-write them > too. They don't do any of the 50 things a REX does, but then again they are > also about 500 times easier and simpler to build and use. These are > designed by a guy named Adam who goes by "FigTronix" on OSHPark. > > I have started documenting all this stuff at http://tandy.wiki . It's a > bit skeletal still so far, and poorly organized, but it's a wiki. I will > gradually work on it over time, and so can anyone else who wants to. It's > only been up a few days. Even the stuff that is up there already, a lot of > it I have more info and pictures to put up when I get a chance. > > -- > bkw > > > On Mar 13, 2017 6:16 PM, "hargarg trurthsr" <fungus...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> 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> >> 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 ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > >
