Re: [M100] 8201A Trouble

2017-06-23 Thread Jason Benson
So far no luck trying to revive the battery (if that's the problem). I'll order a new NiCD to see if that helps. -Jason On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:03 AM, John Gardner wrote: > What may be going on is the 8201a has been sitting for a while > > with no battery or mains power.

Re: [M100] Nec pc-8201

2017-06-23 Thread Kurt McCullum
Looks like the Remote pins chang as well. On Friday, June 23, 2017 2:32 PM, NEC wrote: Hi Alain. Kurt already answered you, anyway take a look at this:    CMT (cassette) TRS-80/100 & PC-8201A  (7) (6)    (3) (8)

Re: [M100] NEC 8201A + NEC 8231A + NEC 8241A=WOW

2017-06-23 Thread Brian White
This is the auction they're talking about I think. http://ebay.com/itm/272729056480 -- bkw

Re: [M100] Please Help. Thank you.

2017-06-23 Thread Gregory McGill
The trick is building them. I have all the stuff to build two and the time/complexity is a little daunting so I haven't gotten to them yet Greg On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:20 PM, James Zeun wrote: > Mcomm has proven to be a very handy piece of kit. However I do think the >

Re: [M100] NEC 8201A + NEC 8231A + NEC 8241A=WOW

2017-06-23 Thread Mike Stein
Displaying M10x video on a big screen is no problem if you don't mind giving up the RS-232 port; there are lots of display/terminal modules out there and it's trivial to redirect the LCD text (no graphics of course). Shouldn't be a big deal to hook into the system bus; I think it's been

Re: [M100] NEC 8201A + NEC 8231A + NEC 8241A=WOW

2017-06-23 Thread Stephen Adolph
the CRT adapter is a very interesting device. would love to have one.. On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote: > I used to have one of each when I had a PC-8201a. I never was able to get > the disk drive to work and I had no documentation for it. I happened

Re: [M100] NEC 8201A + NEC 8231A + NEC 8241A=WOW

2017-06-23 Thread Kurt McCullum
Yes it's on eBay right now. The price is already quite high. Search for the NEC and it will come up. The CRT unit is really the key item. Although the drive is intriguing to me. I have been tempted to try and emulate it with mComm but I suspect there are two things that I would run into.1) I

Re: [M100] NEC 8201A + NEC 8231A + NEC 8241A=WOW

2017-06-23 Thread Gary Weber
Thanks for the head's up, Kurt. My CRT adapter has become defective and I don't know how to repair it; I will hopefully get a functional replacement replacement out of this bundle. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote: > Already above when I have on hand