I attended TASM last year and it was excellent! Got to meet a bunch of cool people (Hi Peter!) and play with some cool machines.
This year I've arranged to give a Friday talk on Model 100-family troubleshooting and repairs, covering how to diagnose simple(ish) issues with the M100s and how to repair and possibly upgrade the machines. This hasn't been officially announced or scheduled by TASM yet but I'm pretty certain it's happening. I would love to make this a collaborative effort and incorporate suggestions from the list. My goal is to get a rough outline together in the next month or two and then get feedback from folks on it. I'm more than happy to credit individuals on the list for their input -- my goal is simply to get more knowledge about the M100 technical details out into the world. Also, if any list members will be attending the Friday sessions at TASM and want to help GIVE the presentation, I doubt that the fest committee would mind as long as we let them know soon so they can add your name to the schedule. Finally, I would, once again, like to collaborate on an M100 display/exhibit. Last year Randy, Peter Noeth, and I contributed displays to an M100-fam exhibit and it was very popular. I plan to show games and application demos running on 100,102,200, and NEC-8201a, plus a Tandy WP-2 hopefully connected to a wifi Modem and BBS if I can manage the connectivity. I'd love to have other Kyocera machines shown (M-10, anybody?) as well as peripherals like DVI, TPDD, etc. I'll have a REX demo and maybe even REXes to sell (depends on my schedule if I can build a batch). If anybody wants to collaborate on the display -- or if anybody already has a M100 display planned for TASM -- please let me know (I haven't registered an exhibit yet). Thanks to Randy and the entire TASM committee for putting on this great show! Hope to meet more Model-Ters there this year. -Josh On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:14 PM Randall Kindig <[email protected]> wrote: > [image: > /var/folders/p5/_y7fyhks1h92zggfpzwjpkf00000gn/T/com.microsoft.Word/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/ta6.png] > <http://www.tandyassembly.com/index.html> > > The response to Tandy Assembly has been fabulous and we’re ecstatic that > we’re able to continue to offer this annual show to the vintage computer > community and Radio Shack fans everywhere! > > Tandy Assembly 2019 (the third iteration!) will take place on *September > 27th, 28th & 29th 2019 in Springfield, Ohio.* >
