Re: [M100] Missing ROM elements

2020-04-07 Thread B4 Me100
This looks like the old oxidation of the contacts problem for the screen. It is not a cable problem otherwise the rest of the screen would be faulty. The trick I personally use is to take a piece of thin-ish card and slide it very, very, very gently along the elastomer material that connects the s

Re: [M100] Missing ROM elements

2020-04-07 Thread Kurt McCullum
You have to create a blank file called NOTE.DO and ADRS.DO before you can use them. Simple matter of going into TEXT and giving them the same name. On Tue, Apr 7, 2020, at 6:13 PM, me wrote: > > What I meant to say is this: ADRS.DO not found, NOTE.DO not found. I > thought they were in ROM. Any

Re: [M100] Missing ROM elements

2020-04-07 Thread me
What I meant to say is this: ADRS.DO not found, NOTE.DO not found. I thought they were in ROM. Any ideas? On 4/7/20 6:03 PM, me wrote: Hi folks, Last week I reported a dysfunctional T100. It turned out that the batteries I bought were already dead. I tested the whole lot with a multimet

[M100] Missing ROM elements

2020-04-07 Thread me
Hi folks, Last week I reported a dysfunctional T100. It turned out that the batteries I bought were already dead. I tested the whole lot with a multimeter and all but a few of them were near dead. After returning them to Costco, I obtained a fresh pack of AA duracell's and tested them befor

Re: [M100] update- build 260

2020-04-07 Thread Peter Vollan
Is the "capacitance mouse" the touchpad? FYI I had no problem turning mine off in Linux. On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 12:26, Fred Whitaker wrote: > > Stephen > > I also have noticed a problem with installing REX fresh on an NEC > PC-8300. I have two of them that work, and one that doesn't. I was able >

Re: [M100] update- build 260

2020-04-07 Thread Josh Malone
Check the physical insertion of the REX module. I've had that issue with bad contacts. On Tue, Apr 7, 2020, 3:26 PM Fred Whitaker wrote: > Stephen > > I also have noticed a problem with installing REX fresh on an NEC > PC-8300. I have two of them that work, and one that doesn't. I was able > aft

Re: [M100] update- build 260

2020-04-07 Thread Fred Whitaker
Stephen I also have noticed a problem with installing REX fresh on an NEC PC-8300. I have two of them that work, and one that doesn't. I was able after about thirty minutes to a fresh install of the REX software on one of my NEC machines, but the other one still hangs up during the stage wher

Re: [M100] Starship Management Software

2020-04-07 Thread Tom Wilson
That's a great idea! Now I want to see a group of gamers sitting around a table, using their Model T computers to manage their character sheets Tom Wilson wilso...@gmail.com (619)940-6311 K6ABZ On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 3:11 PM D10D3 Data wrote: > I wrote a utility on my NEC 8201A to aid the