From Brian K. White: > Could you look a little more at the cards? > Do they come apart to see the board inside? > Is the battery permanent or a removable coin cell? > > Does the main unit with the sockets come apart to see that board?
Good questions and thoughts @Brian thanks for your follow-up with this! In the next day or two I’ll poke around a little bit. I’m a bit squeamish to crack open stuff, not for fear of discovery but for fear of naively breaking brittle rare stuff! I’ll do my best to do what I can (if I see something I can open and/and detach, I certainly will!). Whatever I’m able to learn on the hardware side, I’ll take additional pictures and update the PDF (and post here letting you and others know). I also happen to have a Tarjeta IC Card MF3132-003T originally for Noritsu machines that I wanted to use in my Tandy WP-2 (sadly, it doesn’t work) so I’ll see if it works in this fella at all. > I love how thin the unit is. Yes, the black plastic case is incredibly thin and I could see how convenient it would be to have it affixed under the Model T (especially if the user has two of those groovy little legs installed as kick-stands of sorts). I’ll probably replace the battery and caps on this particular T102, retr0brite the case, and nickname it Goldmine. ;-) Cheers, SB -- Greetings from Steve Baker “Gravity brings me down…” > On Jan 11, 2021, at 1:17 PM, Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is very cool. > > Could you look a little more at the cards? > Do they come apart to see the board inside? > Is the battery permanent or a removable coin cell? > > Does the main unit with the sockets come apart to see that board? > > I love how thin the unit is. > > -- > bkw > > > On 1/10/21 5:25 PM, Steve Baker wrote: >> Thanks! Yep, it’s very well-built and I’m looking forward to digging into it >> once I (finally) put together my MVT100 kit that you sent me months ago! >> (I’m perhaps too cautious…) >> By chance, is Mo still associated with King Computer Services (that’s one of >> the companies mentioned in the credits screen)? I sent an email to them and >> attached the PDF too. >> https://www.kingcomputerservices.com/contact.htm >> <https://www.kingcomputerservices.com/contact.htm> >> It’d be great to learn more about the history of this project, how long it >> was on the market, if the manuals are available somewhere, etc. (looks like >> I’ve found my next windmill). >> Cheers and again, thanks, >> SB >> -- >> Greetings from Steve Baker >> “Gravity brings me down…” >>> On Jan 10, 2021, at 5:10 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:twospru...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> very interesting! Never seen that before. >>> Well Mo Budlong wrote some very good software, I'm sure it is really a good >>> device. >>> thanks for putting that together! >>> Steve >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:06 PM Steve Baker <stevebake...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:stevebake...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Quick update on my (previously mysterious) Gold 7.10 chip. I >>> dusted off the corresponding hardware (an interesting case with >>> two 256Kb IC cards that plugs into the system bus) and was able to >>> get it working. It offers two banks of 256Kb storage plus some >>> utilities to format and test IC cards, copy cards, transfer files >>> to/from RAM, and so on. >>> >>> Today I made a quick PDF that has (a) photos of the software >>> running on a Tandy 102, the chip itself, and the IC case and >>> cards; and (b) a two-part article written by Mike Nugget in the >>> Oct/Nov 1988 issues of Portable 100. Thought it might be >>> interesting to read a more robust hands-on review, as I’m just >>> starting to figure out what this does. >>> >>> The PDF is stored here in my Club100 folder: >>> >>> >>> http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Baker&; >>> >>> <http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Baker&;> >>> >>> … along with the HEX and BX files of the chip itself. Now I’m >>> totally curious about what I have… given the chip has a >>> hand-written label, is this a pre-production version? Or were all >>> of them shipped like this, thereby asserting a relatively low >>> volume (the 512k set had a list price of $550 back in ’88)? Well, >>> it’ll be fun to see what I can do with it. >>> >>> Cheers and here’s to a good week, >>> SB >>> >>> >>> — >>> Greetings from Steve Baker >>> “Gravity brings me down…” >>> >>> >>> > > > -- > bkw
