I found my notes on the serial port stuff - thanks to Brian for
desklink+. With a little perseverance, I was able to get the transfer
stuff working on Linux. I made the transition off of MacOS this past
year, but my notes are still Mac centric. Linux sure has come a long
way... much easier to work with than back in the 90's (I say this from
Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia"). It is so easy to interface the linux
machine to practically anything...
Anyhow, I remembered what the ROM thing was - RexCPM. Tomorrow, I'll try
digging out those notes and seeing about getting that running.... or is
it already running? It's definitely attached, but it's been on the shelf
a looong time now and I seem to recall something about the version I
have loses its mind or something when shelved. No worries, thankfully
I've got great notes... oh, wait, my notes suck!
Which brings me to today's lesson - keep good notes :). Date them,
organize them, be sure to say what works and what doesn't and what's
needed to get things working. The serial note wasn't horrible, but it's
much better now. The RexCPM note, practically non-existent... and
apparently, I didn't think notes mentioning that TEENY needs upper case,
that Q is quit, that you exit BASIC with MENU, that Shift-Break is how
you stop programs or pretty much anything useful down the road was worth
noting. Now, I know better, off to write a better "Pull the M100 off the
shelf and here are some things you should know/remember..." note.
Later,
Will
- [M100] keeping notes Will Senn
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