When I had this issue, it turns out I hadn’t snapped the connector in fully on the underside of my M100. I would disconnect it and ensure no pins became bent and flattened out. If the pins look good, carefully replace the connector and snap it firmly into place.
When making my cable, to figure out the location of pin 1 on the M100 and the DVI, I think I used a multimeter and the pin outs in the various manuals to look for ground pins which gave some insight into the orientation of the connectors. Seeing “please wait” followed by a Microsoft copyright is a very good sign that your boot disk was successfully read. Royce Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 17, 2024, at 21:20, Michael Brutman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ok, here is the part I hate ... getting things put together and then not > having it work. > > I'm using Greg's cable kit with a Tandy 102. I have the twist adapter on the > 102 side, red stripe oriented as in the pictures on the Wiki. (The red > stripe closer to the 'S' of "System bus".) That goes into the IDE ribbon > cable, which is connected to the DVI also using the orientation in the > pictures from the Wiki. > > I used Teledisk to create the disk image. I powered on the 102 first, as per > the DVI user manual. When I power on the DVI I get the "Please wait!" > message, and then I get the Microsoft copyright message. All of this is good > so far. > > Where things fail is when I try to load disk BASIC onto the 102. The > instructions say to use the Reset button or to power the machine on and off. > Neither has any effect, and I've tried it with two different 102s. > > What am I missing here? >
