I'm a fan of the tech.
On 4/26/20 8:42 AM, Mike Stein wrote:
With so many other options for saving data why so determined to use a
tape drive?
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*From:* me <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:46 AM
*Subject:* Re: [M100] My M200 is sick
I must've inadvertently backed up my data about 3 days ago. So I
have about 20% recovered. That's a better than nothing. I'll
backup everytime I create a new document until I get that tape
drive. And the cables
On 4/26/20 5:11 AM, me wrote:
thank you for the tip. i saw that there were two backups right
before it froze. now i know what that is.
i'll have to put out calendar to remind myself.
one project of mine this summer is to learn 8085 assembly so i
can write some apps for this sucker. i love this thing.
can't wait to get my 100 back up and running too.
D
On April 26, 2020 5:08:16 AM PDT, Stephen Adolph
<[email protected]> wrote:
I would suggest that one of the main things to do with REX is
to back up ram images into the REX flash chip for storage.
if you have 3 banks then you have 3x24 kb.
Sorry you had to restart it. Hard to say what root cause is,
but saving progress to REX regularly is a good thing to do.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:03 AM me <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Okay, I wiped the memory and now it's back to normal. Thanks.
i'll just have to live with the loss of my work and redo
it. I'm sure it'll be better than the original.
Anyway, i have to reenable the rex manager and i'm back
to business. Thanks for the help. I'll remember this for
next time.
I cant wait to get my tape drive so I can save my work to
that so if this happens again i won't be screwed.
On 4/26/20 4:59 AM, me wrote:
The battery inside was replaced in 2018. The aa's were
tested and they're at 1.4+
I have done the whole restart, resetting it, but I
haven't done the memory wipe. In the four-five days I've
had it, I've written alot on it. I'd like to keep the files.
I dno't know how to check how much ram is on it, though.
Yes, it's REX that I was tabbing going to different
banks, all three.. Bank 1 was pretty much full. Bank 2
is where I'm keeping all my documents, and bank 3 is unused.
I won't be removing REX if it'll corrupt the power up bank..
On 4/26/20 4:09 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
That's a very common screen in my opinion with T200. I
always get that when my T200 has been sitting unused
for a while, and I am more or less convinced that it
relates to the nicad batts being a bit low. with or
without REX.
But I have never really root caused this weakness in
how T200 powers up. To recover it, I usually do a
combination of (1) cold restart (2) toggle memory power
switch (3) pulling power completely. What the state of
the RAM is afterwards is the question.
Certainly, you can try removing REX. There is a good
chance that your RAM will be corrupted if you do that
though (at least in the power up bank, the other banks
should be ok).
If there is an important file that you need to get
back, I would say there are ways to extract the raw
memory from a ram bank AFTER a cold restart.
How much RAM is installed?
You mention TAB - TAB (for changing banks) is a REX
feature that is equivalent to the BANK function key.
If you pull REX out, TAB won't work, so use the
function key.. And if REX Manager software is not
correctly installed in the T200, TAB will also not work.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 4:18 AM me <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My model 200 is on the fritz this evening. Video
description below:
https://www.omgwtflol.net/nextcloud/index.php/s/gMS9cbc6fWdaQQL
I'm happy to take suggestions while I read the
service manual.
Daniel
