Excellent! Mystery solved!
I would love to add any other language/country roms to my Y2K page, but
I don't know how you can dump it without an eprom programmer.
I found one rom-to-serial program but I think it probably only does the
option rom not the main rom. I haven't tried it yet.
https://ftp.whtech.com/club100/eme/romcom.100
I thought Steve or someone posted a BASIC program here that could do it
but it was a while ago and I can't find it now.
I don't think what you have is actually a general "European" version
like I was saying, but probably a more specific region, possibly even
specifically Belgium. I found I also had a UK version of T102 as well as
US. And probably that UK version isn't for all of Europe.
The rex docs are explicit and clear that it doesn't support any European
models. I bet it's not trivial to support each different version. Plus
Steve would probably need to have an example of each unit to test. We
may not even have rom maps for the EU roms for the different machines,
which he would also need.
The previous owner probably tried to use a US rom simply to be able to
use REX#, and was willing to accept having some things break in order to
get that.
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bkw
On 2/4/22 06:37, Cedric Amand wrote:
Hello Steve, Hello everyone
Thanks again really for taking the time... We all have lives and I
really appreciate.
I did some more research (isn't that what we all like in this hobby) and
here is what I came up with.
- I have for sure a Belgian, European, Model 102. no doubt about it.
- My little homemade PABX (phone exchange) is flawless, it works with
other modems of the era or plain analog phones.
- With a "US" BIOS (not sure which) and the REX#, the modem part is
completely broken. This is especially obvious if you hit F4 in TELCOM,
the M102 start to make awful noise (without cable, just on it's own!)
and the program seems crashed (needs reset/reboot).
From there I tried;
- Removing the REX# (which I wouldn't have done without everyone's
support here) ; problem is the same
- Interestingly, "TERM" (F4) in TELCOM also still crashes !
Then obviously, what I tried;
- The seller did gave me my original BIOS, just marked "EU" (if I can
give you a version i'd gladly do it, I can also dump it if that's of any
use the the community)
Now... I guess I'm "stock" again.
This changes a lot of things.
The TELCO program changes a lot !
Interestingly, is has no more F1 or F2 features, F2 was called "CALL"
(it allowed me to do DTMF pulses), the feature is not there at all
anymore (?!)
Hitting F4 (TERM) does not make any noise now, and does not crash.
I was able to make a link between my USR 56K and the M102, thru my PABX,
by using the ANSW mode in the M102.
I have a proper 300bps link, hows "CONNECT" on the USrobotics, and i can
see the characters I type on both sides.
(it's not yet a real useful communication but the basics are there, from
now on I can manage !)
(So I wanted to explain all that in great details first in case it ever
helps someone.)
Then the question remains ; *why* did my original owner change the BIOS
to use REX#
Is that mandatory ? Wdyt Steve ?
Is there a way I could put a "name" on my BIOSes (version, revision ? is
there a place or a CALL where this shows up ?)
What would happen if I put back the REX# with my current ("EU") BIOS ?
Does anyone have any idea why the F1/F2 (CALL) functions in TELCO
disappeared when I switched bios ?
That's a lot of questions I know :)
Le ven. 4 févr. 2022 à 12:04, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
Cedric, who did you buy it from? I can go through my emails to find
out the history.
Thx Steve
