Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-18 Thread Mike Stein
> The reason for doing it is that we can. Ah, right, of course; I forgot ;-) - Original Message - From: Gary Hammond To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 1:43 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves I had a go at using both 3.5" and 5.25&quo

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2018-02-17 Thread Gary Hammond
ing it is that we can. Do we need any other reason? From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stein Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2018 6:52 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves It's been a long time, but IIRC there was no problem using

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-17 Thread Mike Stein
Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Interesting. Did you ever get the 3.5" disks to work? Kurt From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stein Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 3:28 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List o

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-17 Thread Mike Stein
hed cover as the solution. m - Original Message - From: Brian White To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves But your picture that he asked about is not using this cutout cover. On Fri, Feb 16, 2018

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2018-02-16 Thread Brian White
itchin100.com > *Sent:* Friday, February 16, 2018 5:11 PM > *Subject:* Re: [M100] List of wanna haves > > Very nice, I need to find my velcro. The M100 to T102 upgrade :) > > Did you cut the cover? Or is sufficiently flexible to bend over the cable? > > From: M100 on behalf of M

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-16 Thread Kurt McCullum
Interesting. Did you ever get the 3.5" disks to work? Kurt From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stein Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 3:28 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Some DVI pics from way back when we

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-16 Thread Fugu ME100
riday, February 16, 2018 at 3:06 PM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves The DVI came with a replacement cover that has a cutout for the cable: [cid:85CB23C331CB4C07A6D654B0B7479E7A@310e2] - Original Message - From: Fugu ME100<mailto

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-16 Thread Mike Stein
Some DVI pics from way back when we were exploring 3.5" disks:

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2018-02-16 Thread Mike Stein
The DVI came with a replacement cover that has a cutout for the cable: - Original Message - From: Fugu ME100 To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Very nice, I need to find my velcro. The M100 to T102

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2018-02-16 Thread Fugu ME100
0.com>> Date: Friday, February 16, 2018 at 11:39 AM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves - Original Message - From: Fugu ME100 To: m...@bitchin100.com<mailto:m...@bitchin100.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [M10

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-16 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: Fugu ME100 To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves ... > I fixed the Model M100 problem by using a ZIF socket in the IC socket. This > I think was the original way the DVI was sold at

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-15 Thread Josef Chessor
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > > There are several ways to run DOS on a modern machine; DOSBOX (for > example) is one, and another approach is a DOS bootable USB stick. > > I second DOSBox. I use it not only for games and fun, but for running ancient software to talk to an

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-15 Thread Mike Stein
ck Whitaker" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves >I remember the club members wanting to expand the Model 100's so that it > can work more efficiently, and provide externals that assist in doing > that. The DVI made it a

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Chris Fezzler
Well stated and I concur. On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎14‎, ‎2018‎ ‎04‎:‎27‎:‎57‎ ‎PM, Frederick Whitaker wrote: I remember the club members wanting to expand the Model 100's so that it can work more efficiently, and provide externals that assist in doing that. The DVI made it a littl

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Chris Fezzler
Agree.  In my some two decades here, I don't recall this tenor of exchange.  Rick was the most patient and tolerant man.  Let's keep this a friendly zone in his honor. On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎14‎, ‎2018‎ ‎02‎:‎20‎:‎48‎ ‎PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Can we lower the temperature a

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Frederick Whitaker
I remember the club members wanting to expand the Model 100's so that it can work more efficiently, and provide externals that assist in doing that. The DVI made it a little like a desktop computer. The external Disk Drives made it possible to store files on disks so that they could be accessed

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Can we lower the temperature a bit? We're all long time members of Club100. No need to get adversarial over tech questions / ideas. -- John.

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2018-02-14 Thread Brian White
It's perfectly interesting and valid as far as I'm concerned. The only part that's annoying is that you seem to want it to work by magic or something. You seem to hope that someone else will sit down and slog through the long and difficult job of figuring out something complicated so that you don'

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Fugu ME100
il.com>> Reply-To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 9:55 AM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves I actually disagree with a couple of these, especially if the solution involves a RaspPi * SD Card ... this would on

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Brian White
the DVI. Would that be difficult to write? Hasn't anybody > dis-assembled the code for the DVI? You'd only need the video-portion. > > > > Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus / Jan-80@work > > > > *From:* M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] *On Behalf Of *Brian >

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Ken Pettit
Josh Malone mailto:josh.mal...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 6:19 AM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves I'm quite interested in what amounts to a M102 docking station. Not that

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Ken Pettit
itchin100.com <mailto:m...@bitchin100.com> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:33 AM *Subject:* Re: [M100] List of wanna haves What's so interesting abou an external screen ? I can hook up a HDMI 24" screen to my modern laptop, but you don't see me hauling

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Fugu ME100
t; Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 6:19 AM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves I'm quite interested in what amounts to a M102 docking station. Not that it matters much since I probably won't find time to work on (or even theorize about) suc

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Fugu ME100
bitchin100.com<mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>" mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves > You did recieve a very thorough answer. That it won't work, and why not, Sure. And meanwhile, I understood why not. But not thanks to the replies I got here, b

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread MikeS
Duh; of course the DVI has a 40 column mode... - Original Message - From: Mike Stein To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Now, now, Jan, no need to get snippy ;-) Although I'm pretty sure tha

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Mike Stein
m: VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves What's so interesting abou an external screen ? I can hook up a HDMI 24" screen to my modern laptop, but you don't see me hauling one around. It

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Ken Pettit
hn R. Hogerhuis *Sent:* dinsdag 13 februari 2018 20:16 *To:* m...@bitchin100.com *Subject:* Re: [M100] List of wanna haves On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM Mike Stein <mailto:mhs.st...@gmail.com>> wrote: I guess the thing that makes it relatively uninteresting for me is that you'

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread Josh Malone
I'm quite interested in what amounts to a M102 docking station. Not that it matters much since I probably won't find time to work on (or even theorize about) such a project any time soon. But I'm super willing to join on to any team willing to attempt it :) -Josh

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
uari 2018 20:16 To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM Mike Stein mailto:mhs.st...@gmail.com>> wrote: I guess the thing that makes it relatively uninteresting for me is that you'll have to be tethered to a display of some kind

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
need the video-portion. Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus / Jan-80@work From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Brian White Sent: dinsdag 13 februari 2018 17:25 To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves You did recieve a very thorough answer. T

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-14 Thread VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
uot;"""" @ work( @ @ ) --.ooo--(_)--ooo.--- From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stein Sent: dinsdag 13 februari 2018 16:27 To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Playing devil's advocate...: >

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread Lee Kelley
The only reason I would really want a simple method for having an external display port is to be able to connect to a projector for a presentation. With the effect of showing that it can be done. On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM Mike St

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM Mike Stein wrote: > I guess the thing that makes it relatively uninteresting for me is that > you'll have to be tethered to a display of some kind, which negates the > most attractive aspect of the ModelT, its portability; you might as well > just run VT on a lapt

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread Mike Stein
ohn R. Hogerhuis To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 7:26 AM Mike Stein wrote: And I haven't had an answer to what you want to do with it ;-) I'm not aware of any softwar

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 7:26 AM Mike Stein wrote: > > And I haven't had an answer to what you want to do with it ;-) > > > > I'm not aware of any software that uses the 80x25 screen mode, and > redirecting the 8x40 display through the com port to a Pi or laptop etc. is > trivial, so what makes th

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread Brian White
TyRannoSaurus Jan-80 """"" @ work( @ @ ) --.ooo--(_)--ooo.--- *From:* VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN *Sent:* vrijdag 9 februari 2018 09:47 *To:* 'm...@bitchin100.com' *Subject:* RE: [M100] List of wanna haves .. .. (As I'm accessing thi

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves I have asked the Raspberry Pi community to help me with the construction of a DVI-like video-output device. I made

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread Mike Stein
ay through the com port to a Pi or laptop etc. is trivial, so what makes this worth while (other than the challenge/fun) ? m - Original Message - From: VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna have

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread Kevin Becker
a project worth pursuing. > > > > (And I still didn't get an answer about the experiment I proposed, below.) > > Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus > Jan-80 """"" > @ work( @ @ ) > --.ooo--(_)--ooo.--- > > *From:

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread Lee Kelley
oject worth pursuing. > > > > (And I still didn't get an answer about the experiment I proposed, below.) > > Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus > Jan-80 """"" > @ work( @ @ ) > --.ooo--(_)--ooo.--- > > *From:* VANDEN

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-13 Thread VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
from the TyRannoSaurus Jan-80 """"" @ work( @ @ ) --.ooo--(_)--ooo.--- From: VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN Sent: vrijdag 9 februari 2018 09:47 To: 'm...@bitchin100.com' Subject: RE: [M100] List of wanna haves .. .. (As I'm acces

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2018-02-09 Thread VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
( @ @ ) --.ooo--(_)--ooo.--- From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Brian White Sent: vrijdag 9 februari 2018 01:59 To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves That won't work. I don't remember where I read this, but I r

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2018-02-08 Thread Brian White
That won't work. I don't remember where I read this, but I read that the system rom has calls for certain functions but they are just stubs. The rom only contains the stub of a call that says "open CRT: for writing" which just says go to some address and do whatever that address says. Normally that

[M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-08 Thread Jan Vanden Bossche
From: Mike Stein To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Thursday, 8 February 2018, 3:49 Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Just curious: how would you use it? m - Original Message - From: "Randy Kindig" > Agreed!  Just the video part of the DVI would be high on my list

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2018-02-07 Thread Brian White
Nothing like having the modern platform itself also go obsolete. I guess it's happened a few times over by now. There's plenty of "bridge to the present" things which themselves run in MS-DOS. On Feb 7, 2018 11:29 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Brian White

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Brian White wrote: > I believe there is a palmos tpdd server. > Indeed :-) DLPilot was the first TPDD server I wrote. Still get interest in it every once in a while. -- John.

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2018-02-07 Thread Brian White
;> m >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Randy Kindig" >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 5:20 PM >> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves >> >> >> > Agreed! Just the video part of the DVI would be high o

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Brian White
I believe there is a palmos tpdd server. On Feb 7, 2018 9:49 PM, "Mike Stein" wrote: > Just curious: how would you use it? > > m > > - Original Message - > From: "Randy Kindig" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 5:20 PM > Subject

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Mike Stein
Just curious: how would you use it? m - Original Message - From: "Randy Kindig" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves > Agreed! Just the video part of the DVI would be high on my list > > Randy > > Sent fr

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Chris Fezzler
Before NADSBOX I bought an old Palm Pilot cheap and used it for external storage. From: Kurt McCullum To: "m...@bitchin100.com" Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves >3. Something like the NADSBOX>Never had the chanc

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Randy Kindig
Agreed! Just the video part of the DVI would be high on my list Randy Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 7, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Josh Malone wrote: > > Yeah - a replica DVI would be an awesome bit of modern kit for the > M100/102. Even if it didn't have the disk part, the video part would > rule!

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Fugu ME100
.com>> on behalf of Josh Malone mailto:josh.mal...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 11:08 AM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves That's really cool, but did they seriou

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2018-02-07 Thread Josh Malone
That's really cool, but did they seriously put a DE-9 on a TTL-level connection?!? Grrr. On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Fugu ME100 wrote: > There is always something like this: > > http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/serial-vga?keyword=serial%20vga > >

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Fugu ME100
__ From: M100 on behalf of Josh Malone Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 11:32 AM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Yeah - a replica DVI would be an awesome bit of modern kit for the M100/102. Even if it didn't have the disk part, the video part would rule!

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Joe Grubbs
M100 on behalf of Josh Malone Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 11:32 AM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves Yeah - a replica DVI would be an awesome bit of modern kit for the M100/102. Even if it didn't have the disk part, the video part would rule!

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Josh Malone
Yeah - a replica DVI would be an awesome bit of modern kit for the M100/102. Even if it didn't have the disk part, the video part would rule!

Re: [M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Kurt McCullum
>3. Something like the NADSBOX>Never had the chance to get one. If you have an android phone, try mComm for Android. That's the closest you will get to the NADSBOX. It emulates your standard TPDD and adds the Sardine Spell Check as well as a virtual modem mode for 'dialing' Telnet BBS sites. The

[M100] List of wanna haves

2018-02-07 Thread Darryl Pruett
My model T is great 1. Rex -on its way- 2. A video interface 3. Something like the NADSBOX Never had the chance to get one.