Hi Daniel, No, I’m not on any bbs. Haven’t looked at if that is of much use to be honest.
Cheers, Erik > On 4 May 2020, at 11:17, me <[email protected]> wrote: > > welcome to the list. i recently joined myself. got a 100 with a faulty > display chip and a 200 that is my near-daily driver for writing and > notetaking. > > are you a member of any bbs? > > On May 4, 2020 1:27:33 AM PDT, Erik van der Tier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I thought I’d post a quick Hello, here as I just got on this mailing list. > It’s great to see that there’s more people still actively doing stuff with > the m100/102 and similar. I’ve picked my 102 up a few months ago from eBay. > It worked when I got it, the mainboard looked very clean (almost as new), no > leaking caps, battery looked great. After a month or so it stopped working > though (garbled mess on the display). So first I replaced the old battery > with a new Chinese ordered from Ali. That didn’t seem to work. So after a > while of seeing if longer trickle charging would change things (it didn’t) I > ordered a capacity kit. > After fixing my initial (seemingly not so great) soldering I got the 102 to > start again. However, the clock wasn’t working properly (it lost track of > time when I turned off the 102). So I opened up the machine again and saw > that the battery was looking really bad (lots of corrosion on the sides), as > I’d kept the original battery I put that back, but still the clock would stop > while the 102 was turned off. So I figured I’d wait a while until it got a > chance to charge the battery.. and lo and behold… after a few days the clock > worked just fine! > So now I’ve got a fully operational and great looking 102 (I had > retro-brighted it earlier). I might have to get a new (this time quality) > battery as since 1986 its probably not holding all that much charge anymore, > though seemingly enough to allow changing batteries without loosing memory > content). > I had also early gotten a null modem hooked up to my Mac over USB and using > DosBox even gotten file transfers working through Desklink. Anyway, I’m > having a whole lot of fun with this great little machine. So far I’ve been > using it for writing (nice distraction free working on a pretty nice > keyboard). > Next I’m planning to update my Rex (which I had also gotten earlier just > before my 102 broke down) to the latest build and do the hardware mod so I > can play with custom roms. I’m planning to use that to do some OS development > (something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade, since I’ve played with > modifying Minix in the early 90’s). Virtual T under a VM running Windows 10 > seems to work pretty well as a development environment, though it would be > great to have integration with Visual Studio Code :). > Anyway, I’ll post updates on the custom rom OS dev when I”ve got anything to > show… > Looking forward to lots of play on this not-so-new toy :) > > Cheers, > Erik > > Daniel
