As usual - thanks Brian!

On 2/03/2018 14:52, Brian White wrote:
> google or ebay search "FRW-8.5 belt"
>
> Pay about $9 or less, or keep looking.
>
> On Mar 1, 2018 11:50 PM, "Scotty Brown" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     On the TPDD2 belt replacement - did you order something specific
>     (that I
>     can then also order :) ) ?
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Scotty
>
>
>     On 2/03/2018 14:33, Anthony Coghlan wrote:
>     > Recently discovered that a few gadgets in my “collection” work
>     well or
>     > could work with a little effort, and I have been having fun with
>     > those:  an old Apple ImageWriter (a beastly tank, but great through
>     > the serial port), a TPDD2 that I had never been able to test until I
>     > replaced the totally deteriorated drive belt over the holidays,
>     and a
>     > bar code reader for which I was finally able to download the drivers
>     > (thanks to REX with TS-DOS, and MComm).  
>     >
>     > The bar code reader puzzles me, though.  First, does anyone have
>     > experience using one with REX installed?  Is there any
>     > incompatibility?  Could I be creating a memory conflict between the
>     > driver and REX?  I don’t have much experience with managing machine
>     > language programs on the M100, or M102 in this case.  Just seems
>     that
>     > when I try to run the bar code reader program “as is” or
>     following the
>     > instructions in the BCR manual, with REX installed, the computer
>     hangs
>     > up.  Upon restarting, I end up with TS-DOS still in memory (if I
>     > recall correctly) but not REX Manager.  I’ve had very little success
>     > with BCR - basically read one bar code a handful of times, but the
>     > device seems to be in perfect shape.  ANY tips would be
>     appreciated. 
>     > Thanks!
>     >
>     > Best wishes,
>     > Anthony
>     >
>     >
>

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