Hi Brian,
Thanks for the details. Looks like the level shifter board is the key to the
size, but I'll confess I never thought of mounting a DB 25 directly on the case
of the pi (purchased or otherwise). I looked around and those boards are
available, just need to decide for the best way to purchase one (I'm in the
Sweden so orders from outside the EU get hit with import duty AND a handling
charge).
I've used Pareg Patel's z80 instruction set emulator for emulating CPM under
Unix and I've run it on several environments with no hiccups (AIX, Digital, and
Linux of course).
Jonathan
----Original Message----
>From : [email protected]
Date : 2023-12-13 - 22:34 (CEST)
To : [email protected]
Subject : Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102
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!
