What's wrong with C-cassettes? Unless you have a ton of data, those are a cheap storage option.
And if you do not want to use them, you can get a decent drive made out of any voice recorder (mp3, wav...) that supports high bitrates with low compression. For example, 48kHz uncompressed wav. Then you can use your voice recorder like a cassette drive. It works surprisingly well. > Jan-80 <[email protected]> kirjoitti 22.11.2015 kello 13.08: > > The NADSbox uses SD-cards, cheap and in abundance available, and quite > modern. Flashdrives are not really cheaper, and technically more complex (eg, > they need 5v, 500mA to operate) to implement. ZIP-drives - operating over the > parallel port - are really a thing from the past, because they are no longer > supported, if they haven't died from the 'click-of-death' already. Your > suggestion, serial-to-usb-to-flashdrive might be possible on a hardware > level, but again, where does the 5V come from? From the Model T? Its > batteries will be depleted in no time. And the formatting? FAT, FAT-32 or > exFAT? All that management has to be crammed into a machine with only 32 > kilobyte of RAM (this message might be bigger tan 32 K!) So, it's better that > when you design a storage system for the Model 100, management is taken care > of outside the machine, and the M100 only communicates, using the simple and > tiny TPDD-protocol. And that's what NADS does. (kinda) > > Of course there are cheaper ways: since the TPDD-protocol is the common > denominator for all M100 storage, you can use any device that emulates a > TPDD, connected with a serial cable. So, there are: PALM, PC - DOS, Windows, > Linux - MAC, Raspberry Pi, ... This list is not complete, but you get it. > Programming is mostly free so code can be adapted to virtually any device. > From that device, you can store on any medium you wish, or you can use that > device as your storage space. Oh, I think it will be very hard to fill your 2 > GB with M100 programs... > > Those webpages, I have seen them too. And some are very impressive. But most > of the time, they use the M100 as a terminal, as a shell to build something > in to, or as a simple keyboard. In none of those cases, you are using the > M100 as the computer it is. In most cases, it is used as a slave or a donator > of parts. That's not what I want. I do want to use the M100 as a computer in > its own right - be it so small - and with modern tech to help me connect to > the modern world, and/or to help with storage. But my model 100 is never > going to be a carcass or a puppet. But I realise, that - and all the rest - > is my opinion. > > A lot of people prefer even to use the M100 itself as storage. That's no > problem if you use a limited amount of programs, and/or don't produce a lot > of files that need secure storage or transfer quick. And then we come to > ROM/RAM expansions like REX, REX+ or QUAD. They are valid alternatives, if > you adapt your way of working around it. > > Bottom line: I think that there are plenty of storage alternatives. > Bitchin.100 website documents most of them. > > Good luck, and ask any question on this list, as long as it is about the > computers we love. ;-) > > Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus > Jan-80 > >> On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:05:24 -0700, John Martin wrote: >> >> I was thinking if someone can use a NADSBOX or Iomega zip drive with a Model >> 100 for storing files. Is it possible to use a USB 2 GB flash drive with a >> USB to SERIAL adapter to plug into any M100 compatible port? >> >> I am not a technical person, engineer or computer programmer. But I am sure >> there are more and cheaper options to save files using other kinds of >> hardware media. >> >> I have website pages that show the Model 100 being used for many things. For >> example: M100 using Raspberri Pi, M100 using blue tooth to control a robot >> on YouTube. >
