Haha - Glad you like it Joshua if I do happen to make more or improve on
this one I'll let you know. I don't exactly have ADD but what I do seem to
have is the inability to control what my current interests are and recently
it's been playing with CP/M on the M100, PX-8 and building up a CP/M
emulation environment on the TanPi. That was going great till I managed to
get my hands on one of the MiniNDPs Brian K White made and now I'm all
about his recent 512K upgrade. Never thought I'd get to play with an NDP so
this is exciting stuff.
I have a WP-2 and have tried to use the TanPi on it, but usually ended up
frustrated with the lack of needed keys. When doing unixy stuff having
pipes, curly braces, back ticks etc are handy. The M100 seems to have
everything I need, although you do have to know to hit shift GRPH - to do a
pipe and GRPH ( for { etc.
I like ROM-View 80 but for me it's not enough of a payoff to have to
reconfigure the local terminal settings to accommodate the new layout. The
way I use the TanPi is primarily for content creation and syncing. I will
write documents either with a real editor or just by typing cat > file.txt
and typing away with CTRL-C to stop. Then sync the files with my local
storage or the cloud when I have WiFi. If I need to do something really
heavy I'll use an external screen or my VNC session with my phone.
A lot of times when I'm at home I will ssh into my TanPi from my desktop
and can drag/drop files over SSH, use the real keyboard and monitor for
stuff and it's quite handy.
It's a fun toy.
Brian
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 1:29 PM Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > On Dec 13, 2023, at 6:22 AM, Brian Brindle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My whole setup is a total kludge / hack that I never expected to use
> long term. I was just doing a POC and built the whole thing in about 10
> minutes with stuff I had laying around but here we are almost five years
> later...
>
> Brian, you may consider this rig a kludge, but I'm jealous and think it's
> gorgeous. Using the T as a portable terminal with a perfectly capable tiny
> Linux box cleverly attached is a great hack. I wish I had one of these! A
> 9-pin WP-2 version—what with the 80-column display—would be amazing.
>
> Now that I think about it, have you tried using either one of the
> 80-column software setups, like ROM-View 80 or Ultrascreen100? It might
> make for an even more pleasant terminal experience.
>
> Gosh, I'm tempted to ask if you'd slap another one together in your
> copious free time!
