Hi John, and thanks very much for the welcome. I get it: “If possible, acquire a REX.”
How do I go about that? Does anyone on the list make them anymore, or does anyone on the list have a stash of them, that they might like to sell one? Please let me know ASAP! I’m ready to purchase! I use a Macintosh MacBook Pro laptop as my computer, so on the laptop side, I’ll need a drive emulator that will work on the latest Mac OS X 10.14.3. Thanks again for your attention! smp - - - Stephen Pereira Bedford, NH 03110 KB1SXE > On Jan 27, 2019, at 1:40 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Welcome Stephen! > > If possible acquire a REX. It will come with the best DOS, TSDOS in ROM. > > There is really only one type of rex available right now for 100/102. > > What kind of computer do you have? That will dictate the tpdd service to use. > > -- John. > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019, 8:58 AM Stephen Pereira <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <http://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 > <http://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 > <http://xmodem.ba/> and XMDPW5.BA <http://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 > >
