I won’t have been one of them, as I’ve not been active on any BBS nor this mailing list before.
Cheers, Erik > On 4 May 2020, at 18:38, me <[email protected]> wrote: > > More than a thousand of them actively operating these days. Just wondered if > I know you. I recommended this list to a few 100 owners recently. > > > > D > > On 5/4/20 2:23 AM, Erik van der Tier wrote: >> 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] <mailto:[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] >>> <mailto:[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 >>
