I have never experienced anything other than a corrupted file. I deleted and
that was that. After finding out what caused it, I did not do it again. I
suppose that depending on which point in a line it is not able to keep up with
on-the-fly tokenization some interesting things might happen.
The internal battery always preserves the ram contents as long as it's a
working battery.
Reset can happen fairly easily from crashing software, but it requires
some sort of software error, IE either a bug in the software or a
corrupt copy of the software from a bad serial transfer.
Merely
Ah, it is interesting to know how the dongle was used. I have never seen a
cartridge for the NEC machines, is it basically a box with a connector and ROM?
Jeff Birt
From: M100 On Behalf Of Gary Weber
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2023 6:10 PM
To: m...@bitchin100.com
Subject: Re: [M100] Odd
In my case, the driver transistor for the relay actually failed short. I
replaced it and the problem went away.
On a diode test the failed part was happily conductive regardless of what I
put on the gate, lol.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023, 18:40 wrote:
> The click you hear is the telco relay. The flux
I've been asleep at the wheel.. I totally missed that Mcomm provides a very
good serial to IP modem function!
Once I realized this, I was online in an instant with my T102 at Greg's the
keep.net BBS.
Even more fun I was in 80x25 mode with the MVT100 adapter.
It was so quick and easy! Worked
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 3:38 PM wrote:
> Loading a .DO file which has been incorrectly named .BA won’t work
> correctly but it won’t hard reset the machine either.
>
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Not sure what you mean by "won't work correctly."
Attempting to inload a BA named file that is not properly tokenized
will
The click you hear is the telco relay. The flux around the driver transistor
can turn conductive enough to trigger the transistor and thus the relay. I have
also seen this cause reset issues and other oddities on the M100.
Jeff Birt
From: M100 On Behalf Of Alex ...
Sent: Monday,
Loading a .DO file which has been incorrectly named .BA won’t work correctly
but it won’t hard reset the machine either.
Jeff Birt
From: M100 On Behalf Of John R. Hogerhuis
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 3:21 PM
To: m...@bitchin100.com
Subject: Re: [M100] Low battery , crashes wipe
Thanks Peter,
I was noticing that a lot of those clip on lights may not be able to grab
the T200 Properly..
>> On Monday, February 6, 2023, Peter Noeth wrote:
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> Steve,
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>> I purchased a clip-on book light at Barnes & Noble (Mighty Bright
>> https://mightybright.com) for use on my Nook
" I am still alive and well, not that anyone seemed overly concerned there"
Great to hear that you're well George!
For my part I don't automatically raise the alarm bells when a member goes
quiet for a while... people do come and go and sometimes gafiate. It
happens.
Glad to see some updates to
Hi all,
I did just see this thread, and I want to provide a few updates.
1. I am still alive and well, not that anyone seemed overly concerned there
:D
2. My website is down because I accidentally kicked out the network cable
for my raspberry pi, and I didn't notice. I will be fixing this
Steve,
I purchased a clip-on book light at Barnes & Noble (Mighty Bright
https://mightybright.com) for use on my Nook eBook which worked well for
that. It is similar to the current ""WonderFlex rechargeable" clip on
light, but mine uses 2 CR2032 coin cells.
Some months year later I thought
LaddieAlpha is uses the .NET framework runtime so I assume it works. But
confirmation would be good.
-- John.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023, 1:30 PM Peter Vollan wrote:
> Can I emulate a TPDD with my Microsoft Surface Pro?
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would assume it would run mcomm or the python tpdd
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 1:30 PM Peter Vollan wrote:
> Can I emulate a TPDD with my Microsoft Surface Pro?
>
>
If anyone is interested in testing out R2.2 prior to release, let me know
please. I can send the files needed to upgrade the software. Suitable for
REX# and REXCPM.
Thanks Steve
I’d like to eliminate the possibility that my ram has problems ; may it be on
my m200 or my m102 ; is there a small basic or ml program somewhere that would
to a meaningful test ( I could probably draft a simple one but it would
probably not be very thorough ) All in all my m102 is much more
Although not having seen this ever crash my T102, I did notice that having
my Seiko DP-414 printer connected, but turned off, causes an increase in
current draw on the T102 (likely on the M100 as well). Several 10s of
milliamps if I recall correctly. Does cause the red LED to come on if
batteries
Can I emulate a TPDD with my Microsoft Surface Pro?
TS-DOS? The only problem I know that causes corruption with TS-DOS is
mistakenly trying to inload a file named with a BA extension that's not
really a tokenized BASIC file.
You should always rename ASCII BASIC files as .DO before inloading. You can
inload a .BA file, but it must actually be
Thanks to all, I have a lot of things to investigate now. Jeff : indeed , I've
never been able to reproduce the problem "on demand", but each time I remember
crashing, I was doing serial communication or "saving files", so more than
likely using TSDOS. So that's one area I'm gonna investigate.
A particularly nasty crash can make it do that cold-reset thing. I ran into
that countless times while trying my hand at assembly development while
using ROM2 and MFORTH. in that case the problem isn't that the memory is
totally erased but that some important part gets corrupted and the stock
ROM
>
>
> When you say a Save operation, do you mean write to laptop ram or write to
external?
You are getting a cold restart for sure. That is the result. What causes
a cold restart? Memory corruption, specific bytes in upper ram. When the
computer does a restart from instruction , it will
One other thought I just had. Then testing Backpacks I use a REX Classic mainly
for TS-DOS. I have noticed that if I’m typing along too quickly in the TS-DOS
menus it will lock up as you describe. To prevent this, I wait until the screen
is finished rendering before pressing the next button.
I suspect the RAM is not wiped. The machine is just hard reset, and all
relevant pointers set back to defaults. Your data is likely still in RAM you
just can’t see it.
Jeff Birt
From: M100 On Behalf Of Cedric Amand
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 12:50 PM
To: m...@bitchin100.com
I'm really not convinced my problem is REX related, at least not yet Is there a
process, a type of crash, or something known to basically crash the Model T and
wipe it's RAM (and reset the clock !) ? All of that with a perfectly working
backup ram (I can replace the batteries no problem) It's
>
> Hi Cedric,
If you can, please try to replicate the problem without a REX# involved.
Maybe I missed something with R2.2.
Rs232 does load up the lower supply a bit. There could be a problem with
that aspect, but it should be the same with or without rex.
Thanks
Steve
> On Monday,
It's not normal at all. The backup battery should absolutely protect the
RAM even if the main batteries are dead.
Do you know if the backup battery is getting charged? And I guess the
memory power switch must be on since I don't think it works with it off.
I guess you would need to remove main
Hello, While trying to help Stephen testing new REX software, I've been
investigating crashes of both my M102 and M200 (unrelated to REX) It seems that
when using batteries that are "bit low" (but the red light does not turn on),
together with anything using the serial port (transfers,
Hi, does anyone have a good recommendation for a clip on T200 LED?
Thanks Steve
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