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> One easy way to put TS-DOS onto your machine is to use the TS-DOS MP3
> file and play the audio from your phone or PC into the Model 100/102.
I should give this a try for bootstrapping the kids' machines. I did end up
with a cassette interface cable with one of the machines and I tried using it
with a digital dictation recorder as a portable storage solution but with no
success. I meant to revisit it but then I got the disk drive and gave up on
the cassette cable idea. I think my problem was that the original Tandy tape
recorders had a line-level input but my dictation recorder only has a mic-level
input. It has AGC but doesn't seem to have enough gain adjustment range and
the resulting recordings sound distorted to me (admittedly, it's really hard to
tell). Loading back a text file from the recorder was extremely hit-or-miss
and loading back a BASIC program only succeeded once or twice.
I was going to take the cassette cable's DIN shell apart and put a resistor in
to pad the output signal down, but I never got around to it.
> I keep
> meaning to write a TS-DOS loader into mComm but I have not gotten around
> to it.
I'd love to help if there's any way I can - let me know. I think I've already
captured the first and second stage BASIC loaders that TS-DOS uses when you
bootstrap from the TPDD2. If there was a button you could click in mComm
(ESPECIALLY in the Android version, since a cold-reset when you're away from
your PC is the worst possible time to be unable to bootstrap)...
I know there's more to it than that... not sure if it just streams TSLOAD.CO
after the second BASIC program or if it sends something else, but the end
result is TSLOAD.CO sitting in the menu.
jim
