Hi Ken,
I hear you loud and clear, and your health is the number one priority -
May I offer a thought.
I would be happy to take the orphans off your hands to make them work
for club members - I know I'm in Australia, but I would be happy to haul
them here, make what I can work, and distribute them (with discounted
shipping)
Just so you are aware, I am the owner of DougsWordClocks.com, and I have
all of the appropriate test equipment and reflow soldering gear to make
it work.
Just a thought :-)
Doug
On 11/25/2015 6:36 PM, Ken Pettit wrote:
Hey Guys,
Yeah, I've been in and out of the hospital a lot the past several
months and haven't been spending any time on Club100 (or several other
things). I'm WAY behind on even getting to email.
NADSBox is basically not being sold any more. I have maybe 13
enclosures left and a handful of PCBs, but each of them has slight
issues from where the China manufacturer had some yield issues. It
would take me about 5-6 hours minimum each to get those PCBs in a
workable state (assuming I could even get them working). Because of
this and the fact that leaning over a lab bench worsens my angina
pain, it isn't likely I would be able to get more NADSBoxes out
anytime in the near future.
I am thinking about a couple of different replacement devices, though
getting them development poses similar issues as the NADSBox.
Ken
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Michael Caronna
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Is the NADS box still being sold? I sent an enquiry to club100 a
while back but never heard back.
-Mike
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015, Rob Scrimgeour <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The absolute easiest way is with a NADS box.
http://www.club100.org/catalog.html
Rob S
Victoria, BC
Canada
-----Original Message-----
>From: John Graf <[email protected]>
Sender: M100 <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:05:46
To: Model 100 Discussion<[email protected]>
Reply-To: Model 100 Discussion <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [M100] Question
It would be fun to know the modern answer, too. I've tried
various cable converters from serial to USB, without much
luck. The last time I made it work flawlessly was with my Mac
SE, using the original Mac pin printer cable (which was a null
modem cable) back in my newspaper days. The Mac side used Mock
Terminal, which we also used to operate our modems.
My most recent attempt, some years ago, also successful, was
with a serial to USB cable and some version of Z-Term, but on
a Mac OS 9 system. Never could make it work with my OS X
machines. Using a Terminal emulator on OS X I believe is
different than the Terminal software resident on the new Macs.
If it can be used as a Comm terminal, I never understood how.
Truth be known, while it is fun to use the M100, I've gotten
to like my MacBook Pro, on which I run my entire media
business, and do all my writing. I even use my old iPad 2 for
things like answering this email, though the "screen" keyboard
it isn't much good beyond the alphabet. Too many hoops to jump
through just to get numbers and other characters.
The best solution appears to be those developed by several on
this list, like the NADS box, and a couple of other solutions,
which escape my memory. If you haven't already, check out
Club100.org.
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John Graf
> On Nov 24, 2015, at 9:46 PM, [email protected]
wrote:
> I was wondering what is the easiest possible way for someone
with very little technical knowledge to export text files from
a trs 80 model 100 to a Mac OS X laptop? Any help would be
appreciated, thanks!
--
Kindest Regards,
Doug Jackson
<b>Dougs Word Clocks.com Pty Ltd</b>
ACN: 159 352 753
35 Fred Lane Crescent, Gordon, ACT, 2906, Australia
em: [email protected]
ph: 0414 986878
web: www.dougswordclocks.com
