[M100] The unfortunat parting out of a 200

2018-07-03 Thread Nickolas Nolan
As of today, i will be offering to part out a tandy 200. fortunately and unfortunately, parts of it have gone to restoring 1 good one out of these 2 dead units. i am filled with regret that i was never able to restore both.the keyboard has always been the main unrecoverable problem with this

Re: [M100] wanted m200 (Gregory McGill)

2018-07-03 Thread Gregory McGill
lmk the process on fixing this 200's display :) also I have a couple 100's with dead columns Greg On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:01 AM Nickolas Nolan wrote: > The one for $135 looks easy to repair, > > I was almost thinking of buying it to look at myself, but I wouldn't know > what to do with it

Re: [M100] Tandy trs80 PC-3 lcd

2018-07-03 Thread Kevin Becker
I had my PC-3 and PC-3a apart recently to fix the power swtiches. They weren't really registering the different positions correctly. While I had it apart, I messed with the LCD on the PC-3a a little bit to see if I could reduce the bleeding issue it has. I failed to fix that but I did take some

Re: [M100] Tandy trs80 PC-3 lcd

2018-07-03 Thread Jason Paul
I've been doing a lot of looking around recently and I've noticed tons of crossover on parts and cases and keys and keypads. I would just scoop up as many damaged or undamaged units as inexpensively as possible experiment on them find the similarities and then maybe you can just leave your

[M100] Tandy trs80 PC-3 lcd

2018-07-03 Thread Nickolas Nolan
So I'm aware the m100 group may not be the best place to ask. may also post on vcfed. My past grandfather's pocket computer, marketed as either the trs80 pc-3 or the sharp pc-1251 has had a broken lcd for some time now. http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc3.html Obviously, this one is just a bit

Re: [M100] 2 Bank Gone

2018-07-03 Thread Lee Kelley
Glad to hear it. On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 9:41 PM Kurt McCullum wrote: > Well no sooner had I sent that email when bank 2 started working again. I > am suspecting it had to do with the battery test I was doing. I ran the > battery all the way down. I guess that's a warning to me not to do too