Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread James Zeun
Mcomm has proven to be a very handy piece of kit. However I do think the REX is a must have. Maybe as a club / group we could do a group order and get some made? It seems requests for the REX are regular as clock work. Maybe put some of the profits towards maintaining the site? Idk On 22 Jun 20

[M100] NEC 8201A + NEC 8231A + NEC 8241A=WOW

2017-06-22 Thread Kurt McCullum
Already above when I have on hand but someone will score on this auction.

Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread Gary Weber
Ken, congratulations on the promotion, that sounds like a well deserved and great opportunity for you! On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Ken Pettit wrote: > No, not really. I typically work from 7:00am until 11:00pm on work and > family matters. Then I go to sleep and start again the next day.

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Kurt McCullum
This may sound strange, but try removing the internal battery completely. I had a similar problem when I replace my NiCad with a super capacitor. It turned on once then lines. I had horizontal lines not vertical. Nothing I did made it work. I took the super capacitor out and it worked like a cha

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Joshua Ray
The NiCd? 3.83 V. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > what is the voltage on your internal ram backup battery please? > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Joshua Ray wrote: > > Well... I've tried both cold and arctic starts and I'm still getting > > vertical lines and unres

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Stephen Adolph
what is the voltage on your internal ram backup battery please? On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Joshua Ray wrote: > Well... I've tried both cold and arctic starts and I'm still getting > vertical lines and unresponsiveness. > > Out of curiosity I took the power switch apart again and the machine

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Joshua Ray
Well... I've tried both cold and arctic starts and I'm still getting vertical lines and unresponsiveness. Out of curiosity I took the power switch apart again and the machine is still turning itself on when I toggle the memory power. I wonder if I've got some kind of short or faulty component? On

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Stephen Adolph
control + break +(either a reset (cold start) or a power toggle (arctic start)) power toggle...however you can do it. I tend in the T200 to toggle the memory power switch. all model T computers eventually need the arctic restart ;) On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Joshua Ray wrote: > Can

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Joshua Ray
Can I do that if I don't have the power adapter? Is it control, break, reset, or just control, break? Also, the machine shouldn't power on just when I power on the memory, correct? On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > I usually do the arctic start- > > pull batts > hold down

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Stephen Adolph
I usually do the arctic start- pull batts hold down control and break, and then power up. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Joshua Ray wrote: > I did try to cold start. There was no response though. > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Josh Malone wrote: >> >> Did you do a cold-start? >> >> Hold

Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread Ken Pettit
No, not really. I typically work from 7:00am until 11:00pm on work and family matters. Then I go to sleep and start again the next day. I think instead of a banner, I am simply going to take away the "Order" button from the order form with a note there. The CEO at my company promoted me two

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Joshua Ray
I did try to cold start. There was no response though. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Josh Malone wrote: > Did you do a cold-start? > > Hold down CTRL and BREAK while you press RESET . > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Joshua Ray wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I replaced the NiCd battery with a

Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
I think there are a few of us that would pitch in some funds. But someone else needs to provide the labor. Although at least M100 REX plans are out there, no one has committed to building for anyone but themselves at the moment. I would really like to see it outsourced to a professional manufac

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Josh Malone
Did you do a cold-start? Hold down CTRL and BREAK while you press RESET . On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Joshua Ray wrote: > Hi all, > > I replaced the NiCd battery with a replacement NiCd rated as 3.6 V, 60 > mAh. It reads 3.8 V on my multimeter. > > I reassembled the components to test it a

Re: [M100] Tandy 200 repair, guidance requested

2017-06-22 Thread Joshua Ray
Hi all, I replaced the NiCd battery with a replacement NiCd rated as 3.6 V, 60 mAh. It reads 3.8 V on my multimeter. I reassembled the components to test it again, and when I switch the memory power on the LCD immediately turns on without me pressing the power button. I'm still getting vertical l

Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread Gary Weber
I am tempted to personally fund a new production run for all REX variants if it means I can obtain them for my various NEC machines. :) On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Mike Stein wrote: > Just for the record, is anything in practice actually still officially for > sale on the web site? > >

Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread Mike Stein
Just for the record, is anything in practice actually still officially for sale on the web site? I think it would be a good idea to put a banner across the top clarifying the status and referring to this list or Bitchin100. m - Original Message - From: John R. Hogerhuis To: m..

Re: [M100] Nec pc-8201

2017-06-22 Thread Alain Dextraze
I'll try that. Thank you for your quick reply! De : M100 de la part de Kurt McCullum Envoyé : 22 juin 2017 10:03:51 À : m...@bitchin100.com Objet : Re: [M100] Nec pc-8201 The MIC and EAR plugs are reversed. You can use the same cable just swap them. I'm not sur

Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Welcome to the list! No new NADSBoxes are being made but there are other storage and file transfer solutions. Club100 web site is actively maintained to a degree. There are "personal libraries" where users can upload files to share. Also there is the bitchin100 site and wiki. The best way to get

[M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-22 Thread Steven Milbrandt
Hi. i am new to the list so please excuse me if I ask something that has bee asked in another archieve /post that I have not found or discovered. Is the club100.org website still active in the sense of purchasing items froms it? Can I still buy a N.A.S.D.? If so from where? can I use the we

Re: [M100] Nec pc-8201

2017-06-22 Thread Kurt McCullum
The MIC and EAR plugs are reversed. You can use the same cable just swap them. I'm not sure about the motor on/off pins since I use a digital recorder, but I can definitely confirm that swapping the plugs works. Kurt On Thursday, June 22, 2017 4:43 AM, Alain Dextraze wrote: Do you kn

Re: [M100] programming question

2017-06-22 Thread Ron Lauzon
No. A War Dialer was something that called many phone numbers looking for a carrier (or something to show that there was a computer at the other end). What he'a thinking about is one of the full-featured terminal programs that we used to use. Many of them had some sort of scripting language that

Re: [M100] programming question

2017-06-22 Thread Scott Lawrence
Sounds like a "War Dialer" Sent from my fancy-schmancy phone. > On Jun 22, 2017, at 1:31 AM, Peter Vollan wrote: > > For the Model 100, is there such a thing as a program that will 1) > call a phone number 2) connect to it 3) log whatever it spits out into > a file, and 4) when the connection i

[M100] Nec pc-8201

2017-06-22 Thread Alain Dextraze
Do you know that the cassette câble for the modèle 100 does not work with the nec? The plug is the sans, but the pins inside seem différenthow can we find the nec plug??