Stephen, Joe; I can appreciate your love of the M100! I did also 32 years ago! At that time we thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread! That only lasted for a year or so. Unfortunately, it had very limited usefulness in a true computing environment. It's limitations of the display, RAM, and addressing capability soon gave way to more capable machines. Being a test engineer for 32 years in the defense industry; I was many times harnessed by the 8080/8085 8 bit processors with 64K addressing limits. I did mostly assembly language programming, due to execution time in controlling gun and missile launching servo systems! Did some Basic programming for simple acquisition programs. I'll be interested in hearing about either of your approaches in the TDock arena!
Dave Sent from my iPad > On May 22, 2015, at 5:12 AM, Joe Grubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > I tend to agree... While I have nothing but respect for any enthusiast > pursuing a new project involving these machines, I'd rather see my M100 or > 200 being what it was meant to be: a computer. Connecting it to what is > essentially a modern and powerful computer seems like cheating in a way :) > > > Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 07:28:32 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [M100] Can you Raspi with a bluetooth module board on a M100 > > There are lots of ways to connect an M100 to a linux device as a dumb > terminal. None of them are particularly interesting to me. I like the > native environment of the M100; I rarely enjoy using linux. I like BASIC > programming too. I can appreciate other approaches though; lots of > challenges to solve. > The other thing that I find interesting is that there are so few solutions to > a complete computer that can operate on 50 mA. M100 is one of them. Raspi is > not. Palm Pilot was another. > My 2 cents anyhow. > >
