Hey all. I just realized that I never really messed with the tpdd2 drives that I have. So I did just that last night.
One works perfectly, and looks perfect too. In box, with disk and serial wire and everything! Yay! The other makes weird whirring noises. I haven’t cracked it open yet, but I’m assuming it’s a broken belt. The “Utilities” disk with my “good” one is still perfectly readable and I was able to make a backup of it. So first of all: *** if any of you need the utilities disk for TPDD2, contact me. You pay shipping and I’ll make you a copy! I’ve got a bunch of DSDD floppies from my Amiga backups that I can reuse. ;). I’ll copy and verify the floppy before sending it out. And yes, I know that there have been modern serial based solutions for decades now, but having the “boot” floppy is nice if you want to get your original gear going. :) Now, a question; I ran the short program that the manual says to run, and it installed the “floppy” application (floppy.co) on my 100 and on the T200. But on the T200, it appears only in one program bank. Do I need to reinstall it in the other banks to use it there? I want to save a program to disk, but I don’t have 5k free anymore to get the floppy program installed... help? Sent from your iPhone.
