On 9/14/20 6:31 PM, dano none wrote:
Hi All,
Long time owner of a TPDD first time user.
I've looked at: http://tandy.wiki/TPDD - Lot's of good
information! (Thanks all for that).
I try but I do know it's still not as well organized as it could be. But
I just try to get stuff written down at least, just to document the
significant info for reference, and improve the presentation a little
bit here & there over time.
Some fairly fundamental questions:
http://www.club100.org/library/sup/07.txt
<http://www.club100.org/library/sup/07.txt>
What exactly does this procedure do and does it need
to be done, every time batteries are swapped, or every time the drive is
hooked to a new model 100/102?
You need to do it any time your M100 loses it's ram from dead batteries
or a crash or an intentional ctrl-break-reset hard reset, and only if
you actually want to use the original dos instead of TS-DOS.
There are a few (very few) reasons to do that. In the M100SIG.zip
archive there are some BASIC programs that require the original dos be
installed, as they use routines from it.
Note that procedure is specifically for the original TPDD.
The procedure for TPDD2 is much less of a pain in the neck.
TPDD2 says "Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2" on the front.
If you don't see the 2, you don't have a 2.
What's been peoples experience been with read ability of disk
between on TPDD and another - I come from a time where ever Users Group
had a nerd with an O-Scope and an alignment disk...
What's the best bet for 720K diskettes (NOS Ebay?)
It looks like the floppy.co <http://floppy.co> comes on the
utility disk that comes with the drive.
How was tsdos distributed, and what's the easiest way to load today?
Easiest way to install ts-dos today depends of what other hardware and
stuff you happen to have.
Do you have a few bucks to toss around?
Then the hands-down easiest is to buy a REX# from Steve Adolph. It's an
on-board option-rom library that fits in the socket where a single
option rom used to go, with one pre-installed option rom image, which is
TS-DOS.
Do you have either a Windows machine or an Android phone or tablet, AND
a usb-serial adapter and a proper kind of serial cable or the stuff to
make one? (http://tandy.wiki/Model_T_Serial_Cable)
Then the easiest is to get mComm for Windows or Android from Kurt
McCullums directory on club100.org
http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Kurt%20McCullum
Do you have the cassette cable and a device with a 3.5mm headphone jack
that can play mp3's ? (PC or a phone that is old enough to still have a
headphone jack, or a lightening or usbc headphone dongle etc)
In that case I personally think playing the DOS100.MP3 (also from Kurt's
directory) is the simplest, IF you are lucky that the player just
happens to put out a high enough voltage on the headphone jack. It's a
long story but basically all modern devices put out a lower voltage than
the M100 expects, but it's right on the edge. About 60-75% of random
devices will work when volume is at 100%, and the rest won't no matter
what you do. So you just try your phone and if it works, good. If it
doesn't, don't beat your head trying to get it to work, that particular
device never will. Just try some other phone/tablet/mp3player/laptop etc
and probably if you try 2 or 3 things one will work if the very first
thing you tried didn't.
For me on linux or osx, I use http://github.com/bkw777/dlplus to
bootstrap, when I'm pretending I don't have a
http://tandy.wiki/Building_a_REX, or a http://tandy.wiki/Teeprom, or a
http://github.com/bkw777/MounT running http://github.com/bkw777/PDDuino
--
bkw
What's the easiest way to copy a diskette to either make a backup
or send to someone, can you daisy chain two or more drives together?
Thanks!
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bkw
