The boot disk for 200 boots everything, 100, 102, 200. It has 2 sets of files, the original files for 100 plus another set of the same files for 200. Yes the cable is the same for 102 and 200, at least for the pins. It's not necessarily the same for the plastic shroud. The opening around the bus connector is smaller on the 200, and a regular boxed/shrouded male IDC connector just barely fits in a 102, but not at all in a 200. So it's pretty difficult to make a polarity-keyed cable for 200. You might be able to do it with a solder type boxed male 40 pin header instead of a crimp-on type. If you do the trick with an IDE cable and a male-male pin header, then that works the same on both 102 and 200.
I actually did all this last night too not just the 15 minutes I uploaded, but thought it was just too long and boring with me actually reading the manual on camera and running in to problems like bad copies of the system disk and discovering mystery files on the system disk and pondering where they came from, all while filming... 45 minutes to deliver 3 minutes of actual information! And on top of that, you can't even read the screens. I'm playing with a video editor now to see if I can make it into something reasonable. On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Lee Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > IIRC the rule of thumb is the cable is the same for the 102 and 200. The > 100 is unique. The boot disk is the same on the 100 and 102. And the 200 > is unique. Just FYI. > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Randall Kindig <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There’s only one way it can go, really, in order for everything to fit >> together properly. >> > On Jan 27, 2018, at 1:46 AM, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> >> >> The very first thing I noticed is that you plugged your cable into the >> >> RS-232 port of your T102. >> >> >> >> My cable has a chip on the end that plugs into the area next to the >> >> option ROM. All the manuals that I’ve seen say that’s supposed to be >> >> the way it works. >> > >> > That's the way it's supposed to work on the M100, yes. He's not using >> the serial port, though - the system bus connector on the T102 is at the >> rear and has a more conventional pin header socket, but on the M100 the >> system bus is a DIP socket inside the option ROM compartment. >> > >> > Are you sure you're plugging your ribbon cable in with the right >> orientation? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > jim >> >> > > > -- > *"I will never in my lifetime make a film that cannot be seen by the whole > family"* Arther P. Jacobs > -- bkw
