As far as I know the only documentation & source for the software so far
is Ben Grimmett's posts on the facebook group.
group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Model.T.Computers
ben's posts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1186716131388896/user/647555868
files
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Model.T.Computers/files/files
a video he made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6MzbQfM3no
card & cover, mod directions
https://github.com/bkw777/WP-2_IC-Card/blob/master/README.md#rom-card
All of the relevant files are together at the top of the files section
since they are all the most recent uploads so at least you don't have to
go looking through them all, just look for his name Ben to the right to
get all of his.
When you click on a file you get a little more info and directions on
each one essentially the same as the matching post it came from.
But the posts give a little more info.
I plan to ask him if it's ok to collect this all into a better wiki page
or git repo but haven't yet. I'm sure it's ok but until I get an
explicit OK I don't want to redistribute like that, so that's why for
now I'm just linking to the original facebook posts. Actually this email
is probably now the most complete summary.
If you don't want to have to build the programming adapter board and use
an eprom programmer to write to the card, then you will also need to mod
your WP-2 slightly, but it does not even require soldering. Directions &
pics on my github.
Sorry I have no comment on getting one built. Anyone is free to build
and and even sell them, so if you can find someone local willing to do
it, they already automatically have permission. The parts and labor is a
lot for what you get in the end, and I have no interest in trying to
explain or justify a high sale price, so instead you can have the plans
for free and the $9 connector with $9 shipping just for one part etc got
nuth'n to do with me, take it up with digikey or samtec hehe. Not to
mention even a single person claiming the card burned out their machine
or mangled the pins in their socket etc, which absolutely will happen. I
guess that was a pretty big no comment.
Ben is actually in Australia and some of his parts & shipping costs were
brutal.
The pcb and most parts you can get anywhere but that connector is a pain.
On 6/16/25 11:47, Georg Käter wrote:
Dear all,
does anybody know a source for the "TANDY WP-2 IC-Card" from Brian K. White?
I´ve just low soldering skills and would like to buy an assembled one.
I´ve also read that a guy has ported some S/W to run from the SRAM card.
Where can
I get this from and how to copy to the SRAM card.
Thanks in advance for your help
Georg
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bkw
