Re: [M100] Hello and a TPDD Question

[gotoole]

I am also located in Canberra and can help you out with a disk if required 
Regards
Gordon 


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 Original message From: Lurch  
Date: 2/12/17  8:59 pm  (GMT+10:00) To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com Subject: 
[M100] Hello and a TPDD Question 
Firstly - G'Day from Canberra.

I've recently added a beautiful old M102 to my collection. Complete with a 
matching printer and a TPDD. However (I'm assuming at least) because the 
machine was off for so long, the memory has reset itself back to original and 
wiped the TPDD utility. 
I also get the impression that the required Disk to reload it can only be 
duplicated from another copy, on a machine with a TPDD? 
(Mines the first model, by the way)

Cheers,
Jase. 

Re: [M100] Tandy WP-2 questions

[Russ Oechslin]

When you are typing faster, are you hitting the keys harder? 'Think I 
probably do.


THAT might result in errors IF you have a cracked board or a bad 
contact somewhere...


'Just a thought.

Have you opened the machine? 'Could be a mount is not tight...

Good luck.

This IS the right place to ask -- even if I'm way off target.

Someone knows will have the right suggestion.

At 04:22 PM 12/1/2017, you wrote:
Hi, I know this isn't entirely on-topic but I figured I may as well 
try asking here since even though the WP-2 isn't really part of the 
m100 family, there is a bit of an overlap and some people here may 
have some experience with them.


I bought a WP-2 a while back because I was curious, and it was 
cheap.  I thought it might be a nicer thing to do my blog/diary and 
to take meetings notes on than my m100, since it is thinner and 
lighter and has an 80-column display, and I'd heard the keyboard was quieter.


Turns out I'm less thrilled with it than I had hoped I'd be, but 
that's not why I'm writing here.  I'm having a problem with the 
keyboard and I'm not sure if the problem I'm having is a fault with 
my unit's keyboard hardware itself, or with the design of the machine.


I keep getting errant keystrokes when I type, mostly when I type 
fast.  The errant keystrokes are repeatable, for instance if I type 
a word ending in 'ing' I will get a word ending in 'ing7'.  If I 
type 'ing' at slow or moderate speeds it's fine, but if I type 'ing' 
quickly I get 'ing7'.


I tried some extensive high-speed typing last night and I ended up 
with equals signs and other spurious characters in the middle of 
some words, but in predictable places (like in the same spot in the 
same word each time that word is used).  Also, the cursor would 
periodically jump up one line even though I swear my hands are 
nowhere near hitting the cursor keys, and I'd look at the screen to 
find I'd been inserting text in the middle of the line prior to the 
end of the document.


I'm not sure if this is a design problem and I'm just typing faster 
than the keyboard hardware can handle, because if I type slowly 
things seem to be fine, and the keys for the spurious characters 
don't seem oversensitive (the 7, for instance, requires the same 
amount of travel to produce a 7 as the 5 or 6 do), so I don't think 
it's a bounce problem resulting from movement of the machine when I 
type fast...


Has anyone else run into this before?

I should note that I'm a little disappointed with the WP-2 anyways 
and will probably only use it for notetaking in situations where 
noise is critical, in which case I've found that I have to type more 
slowly than I'd like in order to keep the noise down (which should 
help with these keyboard issues).  My disappointment is mostly 
related to personal preference, because I'm a fairly fast typist and 
I prefer a keyboard with a solid tactile feel.  To put this in 
perspective, I really like typing on the m100 keyboard, but don't 
really like the t200 keyboard because it is softer (which I'm told 
is the same as the t102 keyboard, and which it sounds like many 
people actually prefer over the m100 keyboard).


My work machine has a Model M keyboard which is only about a year 
away from having outlasted my marriage by a factor of 3x.  :)








jim



Russ Oechslin 

[M100] Giving up my hobby - complete NEC8201 collection for sale - no price set, please make an offer

[Miklos Tomka]

Hello, 

I have to give up this amazing hobby - so my NEC8201 collection needs to go.

Here is what I am offering:

Two NEC8201 units:
One has 32KB RAM and the CLEUSEAU rom installed
The other one has all the RAM banks full. plus it also has REX manager
installed
Both units are very clean and work well

Also included: an original NEC vinyl carry case, several battery holders,
NEC power adapter

I also have a complete collection of manuals:
- The original NEC manuals ( basic, system,applications etc.)
- The original service manual from NEC
- several manuals for assembly programming

- manuals for the various ROM's printed in binders

Also included an EPROM burner and an EPROM eraser as well as a collection of
cables ( serial etc.)

On a USB stick:
a complete collection of EPROM's
all the users guides / references
various tips / tricks

Is anyone interested - ideally picking up? I am in the Toronto area...

Please email me directly with questions or an offer: x20...@yahoo.com

Thank you