welcome to the list. i recently joined myself. got a 100 with a faulty display chip and a 200 that is my near-daily driver for writing and notetaking.
are you a member of any bbs? On May 4, 2020 1:27:33 AM PDT, Erik van der Tier <e...@vdtier.nl> wrote: > >Hi All, > >I thought I’d post a quick Hello, here as I just got on this mailing >list. It’s great to see that there’s more people still actively doing >stuff with the m100/102 and similar. I’ve picked my 102 up a few months >ago from eBay. It worked when I got it, the mainboard looked very clean >(almost as new), no leaking caps, battery looked great. After a month >or so it stopped working though (garbled mess on the display). So first >I replaced the old battery with a new Chinese ordered from Ali. That >didn’t seem to work. So after a while of seeing if longer trickle >charging would change things (it didn’t) I ordered a capacity kit. >After fixing my initial (seemingly not so great) soldering I got the >102 to start again. However, the clock wasn’t working properly (it lost >track of time when I turned off the 102). So I opened up the machine >again and saw that the battery was looking really bad (lots of >corrosion on the sides), as I’d kept the original battery I put that >back, but still the clock would stop while the 102 was turned off. So I >figured I’d wait a while until it got a chance to charge the battery.. >and lo and behold… after a few days the clock worked just fine! >So now I’ve got a fully operational and great looking 102 (I had >retro-brighted it earlier). I might have to get a new (this time >quality) battery as since 1986 its probably not holding all that much >charge anymore, though seemingly enough to allow changing batteries >without loosing memory content). >I had also early gotten a null modem hooked up to my Mac over USB and >using DosBox even gotten file transfers working through Desklink. >Anyway, I’m having a whole lot of fun with this great little machine. >So far I’ve been using it for writing (nice distraction free working on >a pretty nice keyboard). >Next I’m planning to update my Rex (which I had also gotten earlier >just before my 102 broke down) to the latest build and do the hardware >mod so I can play with custom roms. I’m planning to use that to do some >OS development (something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade, >since I’ve played with modifying Minix in the early 90’s). Virtual T >under a VM running Windows 10 seems to work pretty well as a >development environment, though it would be great to have integration >with Visual Studio Code :). >Anyway, I’ll post updates on the custom rom OS dev when I”ve got >anything to show… >Looking forward to lots of play on this not-so-new toy :) > >Cheers, > Erik Daniel
