[M100] 26-3823

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Found On:
http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/model-100/

Assembler/Debugger
26-3823
$49.95
Debug, write and assemble machine language code.


Was that a real product, and is there a copy squirreled away on a website?

[M100] Fw: New Knowledge to me.

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I didn't see Jeff Birt mention it, but he now has a new take down video of the 
stylish Olivetti M-10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq8DnnvOAy8

I left my Model-100 plugged in to an original Tandy transformer/power supply, 
it got a bit warm, so I said... Hum..
What happens if I unplug the transformer - it will probably go cold, as there 
is nothing to complete the circuit.
I was surprised, the little bugger actually got warmer, not being plugged into 
the Model-100. I've determined, I need to build it a little pig tail with an 
on/off rocker switch on the AC side of the circuit.

[M100] New Knowledge to me.

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I didn't see Jeff Birt mention it, but he now has a new take down video of the 
stylish Olivetti M-10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq8DnnvOAy8
[https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVF.5TmdeHHMypRnkGiskw6vCw&pid=Api]
The Olivetti M-10. The Italian cousin of the Tandy-102? Overview and mini 
refurb.
Video sponsor: PCBWay: $5 for 2 layer PCBs with 24hr turnaround at 
https://www.pcbway.com/ In this video we take a look at the Olivetti M-10. The 
M-10 is the Italian cousin of the TRS-80 Model 100 and Tandy 102. We’ll 
investigate the similarities and differences including that spiffy flip up LCD 
screen and the stylish exterior. How much of ...
www.youtube.com


I left my Model-100 plugged in to an original Tandy transformer/power supply, 
it got a bit warm, so I said... Hum..
What happens if I unplug the transformer - it will probably go cold, as there 
is nothing to complete the circuit.
I was surprised, the little bugger actually got warmer, not being plugged into 
the Model-100. I've determined, I need to build it a little pig tail with an 
on/off rocker switch on the AC side of the circuit.

[M100] Power Question

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If a M100 is left on at and not running anything will it shut itself off?

[M100] Star Blaze 100

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At the Club100 site, I found Star Blaze 100, apparently the only game Tandy 
every sold for the Model 100.

See:
http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Gary%20Weber

I was able to use Virtual-T and follow the installation procedure in the 
manual, and everything loaded correctly.

Now, the odd thing is, I find the game play to be virtually impossible. Not 
sure if that's the way it runs on real hardware or not.

If someone has Star Blaze Loaded on a real M100, can they try it on Virtual-T 
and let me know if the game play is different?

Thanks,
Dan

[M100] Star Blaze 100

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Does anyone have a copy of this software they are willing to share?

Off and On, for a couple of months, I've been looking for a copy on Ebay.
I've not seen one come up, and it seems to be the only game for the 100, that 
Radio Shack ever sold.

Thanks,
Dan

[M100] I keep getting scrubbed.

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Is there any way I can fix things so that all the photo's in my list serve 
email don't say:

-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
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To many of these conversations, the attached photo's would be invaluable to 
understanding.

[M100] WP-2

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Hi All,


 I purchased a wp-2 off of ebay. One of the nice things about buying a wp-2, is 
you can justify the use of space, by just telling yourself..

 All I have to do, is get rid of one hard back book! =)



  Assuming a sympathetic audience on the 100 mailing list I have some 
questions, I've not seen answered on the club 100 site, or I don't know where 
to look.


   When I received the unit, the 2430 backup battery was dead. I've ordered 
one, but it will take a week, and stopping by my local Radio Shack (tm) isn't 
an option. I do have a low battery backup indicator and the screen flashes, 
which makes trying to use it really annoying.


1) How does one check to see if the extra ram is installed?

a) If no extra ram is installed, does this take a standard ram chip?


 2) There is a space on the side of a memory card.

 a) Is this some sort of special memory pin out or something more 
common like PCMCIA?


Thanks,

d.

[M100] New to TPDD questions.

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Hi All,
   Long time owner of a TPDD first time user.

   I've looked at: http://tandy.wiki/TPDD - Lot's of good information!   
(Thanks all for that).

Some fairly fundamental questions:
 http://www.club100.org/library/sup/07.txt
 What exactly does this procedure do and does it need to be 
done, every time batteries are swapped, or every time the drive is hooked to a 
new model 100/102?

 What's been peoples experience been with read ability of disk between on 
TPDD and another - I come from a time where ever Users Group had a nerd with an 
O-Scope and an alignment disk...

 What's the best bet for 720K diskettes (NOS Ebay?)

 It looks like the floppy.co comes on the utility disk 
that comes with the drive.

 How was tsdos distributed, and what's the easiest way to load today?

  What's the easiest way to copy a diskette to either make a backup or send 
to someone, can you daisy chain two or more drives together?

Thanks!

[M100] z88 and tandy portable disk drive

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Has anyone tried hooking up a Tandy Portable Disk Drive to a Cambridge Z88?

The instructions are here:

http://www.rakewell.com/xob/xob.shtml

I think in the instructions to build a cable is says front of connector, I 
think that means - looking in to the cable from the front.

Anyway, has anyone done this? Looks like the little Tandy Portable lived a very 
exciting life, hooking up with Tandys, Z88's and even knitting machines!

[http://www.rakewell.com/images/XOB_cover.gif]
Rakewell's Z88 Archive Page
1. Introduction. Disc-88 is a portable, battery-powered disc drive for the Z88 
computer. It uses readily available 3.5 inch floppy discs as the storage medium.
www.rakewell.com

[M100] EZ Assembler

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So, for those of you laughing at home...

I found this m100 assembly language tutorial - you have to start somewhere

https://archive.org/details/AssemblyLanguageTutorialForModel100/page/n9/mode/2up

two suggestion were made as to what assembler to use:
   1)  The IDE in virtual-t - while this looks like a great tool, to build 
truly large projects, I couldn't wrap my head around it.
   The about virtual-t shows version 1.6, help files show version 1.3, 
while there is a section 8, that shows sub-sections related to the IDE,
  on my help file, that area appears to be blank?

 2) Stephen mentions TASM and the Crimson Editor, both easy enough found, 
downloaded and installed on Windows 10.

I entered the first 20 lines (or so) from the example above:

;prttime
;Oct 30, 1984

   .ORG $DAC0
   ; .ENT $DAC0

   mvi a,$54 ;character code for "T"
   call $4b44 ;print character in A onto screen
   mvi a,$49 ;character code for "I"
   call $4b44 ;print character
   mvi a,$4d ;character code for "M
   call $4b44 ;print character
   mvi a,$45 ;haracter code for "E"
   call $4b44 ;print character
   mvi a,$20 ;aracter code for "space"
   call $4b44 ;print character
   mvi a,$3d ;character code for "="
   call $4b44 ;print character
   mvi a,$20 ;character code for "space"
   call $4b44 ;print character
   .END

The first thing I found, was that TASM wanted a dot in front of .org and .end - 
easy enough, different assemblers have different syntaxes.
   The leaves me with the case of ENT - according to the tutorial ENT is the 
address for the start of execution.

  I'm most familiar with the 99/4a family - where you assemble, link and then 
load and run/execution. Maybe I'm missing a couple of steps.

   After commenting out ENT, I was able to compile sans errors:

   D:\virtual-t\tasm>tasm -85 -x prog_1.asm
   TASM 8085 Assembler.  Version 3.2 September, 2001.
   Copyright (C) 2001 Squak Valley Software
tasm: pass 1 complete.
tasm: pass 2 complete.
tasm: Number of errors = 0

Can I get some hints on the correct syntax to compile with, so that I can then 
load the compiled file .co in to virtual-t, or are there additional steps to 
prepare to load and run?

Thanks,
dano

[M100] EZ Assembler

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I own the 8085 Assembler Book by the Blackburn group.

I've always intended on writing a 'Hello World' assembler program on the M100.
Now's the time.

For all you guru's out there, yea... I'm looking at your Ken, Stephen.. =)

What would you recommend as to how to go about this?

XYZ Program on the PC and stuff it in to Model T-Emulator, is there an 
assembler that can be download and transferred via the serial port?

I'm open to all recommendations!

Thanks,
Dan

[M100] Model T Terminal

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Hi Steve,
 For those of us playing from home, how goes work on the Model T Terminal 
Adapter, the last I remember reading on the list was you were having problems 
with the loader?
Thanks,
Dano

[M100] Barrel Jack Specification

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I want to purchase a barrel jack that would plug in to power port of the Model 
100.
Can someone please tell me the spec's I need?
Thanks,
Dan

[M100] DVI

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>See I had no idea the DVI had it's own dedicated CPU, I just assumed the
>M100 was calling all the shots. But I suppose that does make sense,
>after all its not just a disk filing system it's having to handle, but
>video output as well.

This is a pretty easy unit to open up (I didn't say work on =).
Pretty much four large screws and slide the case off.

I recently won one of ebay and before powering it up - sans M100,
I opened the case - found a dead spider and his web - he didn't
shake loose in shipping and that the ground plug for the drive had
come lose, might have been before shipping.

I vacuumed up Mr. Spider and his nest and hit the floppy connections
with some deoxit and re-plugged in the grounding lug and powered
it up. It came up fine. I did get in some replacement DVI cables from
Arcade Shopper but have not connected a working M100 yet.

d.

[M100] DVI Manual

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Does anyone have a spare DVI Manual that they would like to sell?

[M100] New to me DVI

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About thirty years ago, I had a DVI, I would take my m100 to college class and 
take notes.
I would then go to the dorm, hook my 100 up to a dvi and study from my notes 
and do my report.
I'd also use the kewl 80-column capability and work on IBM Assembler on the 
main frame and fortran on the DEC machines.

Enough memory lane.

I have this unit coming in:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/153840700045
[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/S6oAAOSwCbJeUHwz/s-l400.jpg]
Radio Shack TRS-80 DISK/VIDEO INTERFACE Untested | 
eBay
Untested Radio Shack/Tandy Corp. disk/video interface cat.
www.ebay.com

Look like one of the ports to a hit. What should I do first (plug in it, test 
it out?) - plan on recapping it, change one of the floppies for one of those 
floppy emulators?

I'm also worried about my poor Zenith Green Composite Green Screen - hasn't had 
electrons flowing through it in years, does any one know of a repair service 
for those?

Thanks,
Dan

[M100] save

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Hi,
 I'm working through the language lab manual.
 I'm glad I've been reading the list, because it's a really good book.

 I'm using Virtual-T, I don't know if it makes a difference, but I have a basic 
program that has been saved to ram.

 How do I fork the code? I get an error when I try to save the code under a new 
name...
 Is there a switch for that?

[M100] removing the cmos battery

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 What tool or technique does one use to remove the cmos battery from a model 
100?

   I can't seem to get my diagonal cutters under the legs, and what little 
purchase I get seems to just bend the tabs and pull on the solder joints.

Really looking forward to REXCPM!

[M100] Enter Key Missing In Action

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Hi,
  Pulled a 102 from storage. Everything works but the enter key.
  Based upon you all's experience, where should I start?
Thanks,
Dan