Hiraghm, Please keep me posted. I did find mu old Radio Shack CCR-82 cassette player / recorder and it cables to plug into the M100. But I have to look for documentation on how to save and load files to and from cassette player / recorder that is plugged into my TRS 80 Mode M100.
It would be nice if some one can invent a SD card reader / writer that can be used with the Model 100. SD cards arr cheap now days and so are the readers / writers. I have not used this cassette unit since the early 1990's John M Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:33:47 -0600 From: Hiraghm <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [M100] Is it possible to use a USB flash drive with a Model 100 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed I'm still working on getting my Android devices to talk to my M100 via the BlueM module. They talk, but I'm working on creating a service and a broadcaster which would allow one to use the M100 as a keyboard for the Android device. I want to learn to implement the TPDD protocol, but it doesn't look easy. Once I do that, my ambition is still to be able to connect to your phone via the BlueM and use it for storage w/o even taking the phone out of your pocket (a variation on "cloud" computing...) I'm also hoping to allow Android devices to "share" their internet connection with the M100 as a kind of filtering proxy. I'd love to use my M100 for twitter messages (which are limited to 140 chars, anyway). An idea I thought would be cool would be if, when viewing a tweet with an attached image, the text would appear on the M100s screen, and the image on the Android device's screen. Or a link would take you to a website on the Android device while still reading/writing tweets on the M100. I've also got SMAUG MUD sitting on my desktop. I've been toying with the idea of running a SMAUG-based MUD, maybe writing a custom mud client for the M100, and maybe a graphical mud client for DOS/Win/Android/etc Dunno if possible, but it'd be nice to be able to flow seamlessly from using one device to using another. The M100 client could even be semi-graphical, I think. I still wonder what could be done with the M100 via the expansion port. I read somewhere recently that the expansion port allows for direct access to memory. It made me wonder if someone clever could come up with a memory management device (small, of course) plugged into the expansion port, allowing it to semi-automatically bank-switch the memory in a Quad, effectively expanding the "ram" of the M100 to 128k. Or, theoretically, using a swap file system like DOS, have virtual ram as large as your storage allows. I confess I've almost no technical expertise, so this could be a laughable idea. To be backwards compatible, it'd have to be able to, on the fly, change the absolute addressing into some kind of relative addressing and back again. Of course, then, with DMA, it could serve not just as a MMU, but math-coprocessor, GPU, etc, since almost any such device would be faster/more powerful than the M100's 8085... It's interesting, I always thought the slow screen refresh would be the most frustrating limitation on my M100, but I'm finding that it's the limited RAM that's more frustrating.
