Hello folks, This past week, I became the proud owner of a Tandy Model 102 in excellent shape - 32K RAM, and Multiplan in the Option Socket.
For the past few days, I’ve been familiarizing myself with it. I can attach to a terminal emulator on my laptop, and I’ve been able to transfer ASCII .BA files into the M102 as .DO files, load them into BASIC, and see them go. I am aware of both the Club 100 site and the Bitchin 100 site, and I am trying my best to learn about what options might still be available for extending my machine. Recently, while lurking here on the list, I saw the mention of something called CPM REX that may actually be coming out soon? Please tell me more! I am quite confused about the things I see, like Rex, Remem, Sardine, NADS, and so many DOSs! Much of the information I’m seeing seems to be made for folks who already know what’s going on, so It’s been difficult for me to tell what way I may want to go - and of course if that device is actually still available any more. So here’s my first call for help: Can anyone point me to a concise description of what system extensions are actually still available, and what they do? Also, if it may be best to wait a bit and simply go with that CPM REX? Thanks in advance. In the back of my mind, I wanted to try out machine language… I found that one can transfer .CO files using XMODEM. Yesterday, I spent time pulling in a couple of the XMODEM.BA programs from the Club 100 Telecom Library, and got them each to go. I then attached to my terminal emulator that has XMODEM transfer capability and I thought that I’d be all set, but no. The first thing I tried was to transfer XMODEM.CO back up to my laptop, but when I gave the file name to XMODEM, it abruptly cancelled the upload. The same thing with both of the XMODEM programs that I tried. I was able to transfer ASCII files using one of the other encodings, so I know that I had a good setup. I’m not doing something right, but I cannot figure out what it might be. FYI, the two programs I pulled from the Club 100 Library were: XMODEM.BA and XMDPW5.BA. I was able to transfer each of them into my system, and then run the .BA program to create the .CO program. then running the .CO program was wht gave me the problem in both cases. Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers that you may have to offer! smp - - - Stephen Pereira Bedford, NH 03110 KB1SXE
