Re: [M100] Battery Question

2018-06-13 Thread John Gardner
Kurt - NiCds are all I use in my 8201a's - They both act identically to yours. Years ago I rearranged WATCHDOG.CO to display elapsed-time where the M$ blurb usually appears, which scratched my itch for a little more battery certainty. I reset it when I change batteries - Not perfect,

Re: [M100] Battery Question

2018-06-13 Thread Kurt McCullum
Jack, Glad to here it isn't just my experience. Is your watchdog.co available? I've toyed with building a battery pack with 10 1/3 AA cells (2 banks of 5). This would give me 6v but the capacity would be less than just using 4 regular cells. I have two dead 8201's that both still have good power

Re: [M100] Battery Question

2018-06-13 Thread John Gardner
Hi Kurt - "Watchdog" is a Tracy Allen pgm that's documented here - Scroll down a bit... http://ftp.whtech.com/club100/ref/ My stuff is in storage right now, but what I did is use the background task interrupt to increment a secs/mins/hours counter, & display the result where the M$ blurb

[M100] Epson PX-8

2018-06-13 Thread George Rimakis
Hi all, So I’m a bit too young to know if there was any kind of a “laptop war” between Tandy and Epson, but I’ve recently seen this Epson PX-8 online, and it seems interesting. Does anyone have experience with this? How does it stack up against the M100/102? It looks like it has an 80-column