Re: [M100] Introduction
Welcome to the club. I have a few 100s and a daily driver is the 200. Daniel On 7/20/23 18:29, Alan Reed wrote: Today I received a gorgeous Model 100 from eBay that’s working perfectly. Even better, it came with a REX# pre-installed! I’m having the unit completely re-capped so I’ll have to wait a few more weeks to use it. I’m really enjoying reading through the list archive, and I’ve learned a lot. I’m looking forward to joining in.
Re: [M100] Introduction and information from TC
I like the colour of that NEC, very smart! I'm still drinking my first brew of the day, so the cogs aren't turning at full speed. But do I understand you've made your own external floppy drive? Albeit a highly powerful one? Love the housing for it btw. All the best James Sent from my iPad > On 17 Apr 2019, at 12:54 am, "t...@adam.com.au" wrote: > > Hi all, > > A recent email (Jan 2019) from Gary Weber of http://www.web8201.net repeaked > my interest in the NEC8201/M100/M102 which I own. > > I have a few NEC8201 some are stock and some modified extensively. > > https://scout.homeunix.org/wib/public/web/nec8201/index.htm > > This is a very very old web page which was running on a single chip Web in a > Box, since the email from Gary it is now rehosted on one of my Mac Mini > Servers. > > In time I will update the Web page and a new Blog I have started also on the > same Mac Mini Server as I have a very large resource of information, > modifications and original documentation from NEC a half a life time ago > regarding the ROM code design. All this needs to be scanned and uploaded and > made nicer to look at. > > In the last few weeks I have installed a REX3 recently purchased from Steve > Adolph, fantastic piece of design and coding. This has been installed into my > Red repainted NEC8201 and interfaced via RS232 with the Disk Drive as shown > on my site above. > > I have future plans to manufacture a PCB with better quality ADC/DAC Data > Aquisition hardware and machine code to access, I intend to incorporate high > quality Inamps with Filtering and excitation included. My work these days is > with the UNiversity of Adelaide working as an Electronics Instrumentation > Technician, I also maintain Flight Simulators (military in the past). Due to > retire from full time work in Jan2020 and build RC Boats and Electronic > design. > > I have been considering building onto the same pcb as the above mentioned DAQ > chips, an SDCARD storage, the whole lot to mate internally into the expansion > port. > > All this is something I have wanted to do for years but life > Parents/Children/Grandchildren/Work took first place. > > Cheers, > TC
Re: [M100] Introduction
Welcome to the club, Crawford! -= Model T's Forever =- -- John.
Re: [M100] Introduction
Hi Ben. That's interesting -- you have a generational M100! That's pretty cool. I think it would be pretty neat to have something my father and his father owned, especially something tech.
Re: [M100] Introduction
Hi Eric, I'm also new to the list. I found my Model 100 in my basement while my dad and I were cleaning it and joined the list in case I had technical issues. It belonged to my grandfather who bought it brand new shortly after it came out. On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Eric Nelson wrote: > Hello! > > I wanted to give a quick introduction. My name is Eric and I live in > California and I'm new to the list. I have owned my Model 102 for about > 2+ years now. I use it on a weekly basis for note taking. My daughter > (9) likes to use it to write her short stories. I used to transfer the > files to my Windows PC using a serial USB cable and TraskTalk, but I > rarely use that PC, so sought out something better and recently got the > TPDD emulator working on Android and it works brilliantly. I no longer > have to boot that old PC. > > I recently grabbed a REX from Josh Malone and it's opened up a new world > for me on the 102. It makes the 102 even more usable now. What an > upgrade! Finding the software led me to to this group. > > The first M100 system I ever saw was in my very first computer class in > 83-84. I was able to participate in setting up our districts very first > computer lab. It had TRS-80 Model 2s and 4s, a Coco, and an Apple II. > Those were for the kids to use, but the teacher had a Model 100 that > only he used for grades and notes, etc. However, he wasn't terribly > savvy with the computers yet so asked me to help him with a few things. > I had never used one of course, but loved tinkering with it. I began > looking for one a couple years back and found the 102, which I enjoy > using and is one of the few retro systems I use on a regular basis for > day to day work. > > I post lots of pics of my retro collection and of course, the 102 on my > Twitter feed @duhproject. > > Thanks! > >
Re: [M100] Introduction
Yes, welcome! I too fine the Tandy to be one of the more "useful" vintage computers in my collection. I think I first noticed the m100 in some terrible movie where it controlled some military equipment or something. It was on my must have list for a long time until I finally got into retro computing for real and acquired it and an Atari XL last year.
Re: [M100] Introduction
Welcome to the list Eric. Kurt On Feb 24, 2018 12:06 PM, Eric Nelson wrote: > > Hello! > > I wanted to give a quick introduction. My name is Eric and I live in > California and I'm new to the list. I have owned my Model 102 for about > 2+ years now. I use it on a weekly basis for note taking. My daughter > (9) likes to use it to write her short stories. I used to transfer the > files to my Windows PC using a serial USB cable and TraskTalk, but I > rarely use that PC, so sought out something better and recently got the > TPDD emulator working on Android and it works brilliantly. I no longer > have to boot that old PC. > > I recently grabbed a REX from Josh Malone and it's opened up a new world > for me on the 102. It makes the 102 even more usable now. What an > upgrade! Finding the software led me to to this group. > > The first M100 system I ever saw was in my very first computer class in > 83-84. I was able to participate in setting up our districts very first > computer lab. It had TRS-80 Model 2s and 4s, a Coco, and an Apple II. > Those were for the kids to use, but the teacher had a Model 100 that > only he used for grades and notes, etc. However, he wasn't terribly > savvy with the computers yet so asked me to help him with a few things. > I had never used one of course, but loved tinkering with it. I began > looking for one a couple years back and found the 102, which I enjoy > using and is one of the few retro systems I use on a regular basis for > day to day work. > > I post lots of pics of my retro collection and of course, the 102 on my > Twitter feed @duhproject. > > Thanks! >
