To Chris, Good news and bad news.
The good news: The CRT adapter works great. The bad news: The NEC disk drive that shipped as part of this auction lacks the system disk, and therefore there is nothing to boot. Within my archives I have a PC-8231A system disk *somewhere*, and hopefully I can locate it. Unfortunately part of the case for this drive is broken as well, so I'm hoping the drive itself would even still function given the abuse. As this was an "as is" auction I of course accept all of this risk. Happy to have a working CRT adapter again regardless.. Gary On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > *> ...it would likely be slow and limited to text only. The system bus or > parallel port would be MUCH faster for this...* > > Well, there are SPI BT/BLE modules so speed to the ModelT side shouldn't > be too bad, either using the bus or the parallel port... > > Alternatively, there are modules like this (VGA colour display *and* > FAT-compatible SD card storage): > > https://www.4dsystems.com.au/product/uVGA_III/ > > Of course before long you'd have lots of stuff hanging off the ModelT > again... > > FWIW, here's what an M100 in 80x24 mode looks like (can't find a picture > of 8x40 on a big screen TV at the moment): > >
