On 6/19/20 11:32 AM, Charles Hudson wrote:
Thank you to Steven, Brian, Kurt et al. for your suggestions.
This is the TPDD, catalog 26-3808.
I think the simplest option for me is to order one of the TPDD disks
from Arcade Shopper, which I will do today. The manual describes the
boot process from the disk.
I do have a cassette drive, CCR-81, but I don't have REX implemented yet
and would like to verify operation sooner rather than later.
Cassette cable, not cassette drive. If you have the cassette cable, you
can play the mp3 to install TS-DOS right now, if you have anything with
a headphone jack.
If you have the serial cable and usb adapter you can bootstrap from
either mComm or dlpluss right now too.
The TPDD1 bootstrap procedure from the util disk is about the least
convenient method of all, what with switching the dip switches and
having to enter in that long S-Record correctly. TPDD2 is the slick one.
The mcomm/dlplus bootstrappers work the same way as the TPDD2. But you
do still want the disk just to have it.
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bkw
