Re: [M100] Somewhat off-topic, but... Epson CP/M portables?

2015-05-08 Thread Howard Pepper
Christopher, I too have an Epson PX-8 Geneva. No, they will not run off of the charging circuit, the batteries must be charged. I picked up two new battery packs from Star Technology, which seem to work fine. Howard On 05/08/2015 02:36 PM, Christopher Barnett Fox wrote: I just acquired

Re: [M100] Somewhat off-topic, but... Epson CP/M portables?

2015-05-08 Thread Howard Pepper
feel like making my own battery pack: http://www.notebooksupplies.com/epson/px8.html Howard On 05/08/2015 06:42 PM, Yorgle wrote: Can you send more info about those packs? Url? Etc. off the list is fine S Sent from my Arduino On May 8, 2015, at 5:29 PM, Howard Pepper ac...@bellsouth.net

Re: [M100] Happy Veterans / Armistice Day

2015-11-11 Thread Howard Pepper
You're welcome ;) Howard On 11/11/2015 01:41 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > To all Club100 members who have served in the armed forces, thank you > for your service. > > -= Model T's Forever =- > > -- John. >

Re: [M100] Happy Veterans / Armistice Day

2015-11-11 Thread Howard Pepper
You're welcome ;) Howard On 11/11/2015 01:41 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > To all Club100 members who have served in the armed forces, thank you > for your service. > > -= Model T's Forever =- > > -- John. >

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-12-03 Thread Howard Pepper
Back in my Navy days, I took my Model 100 on a Mediterranean cruise (1986-1987), and powered the 100 for the entire six and a half months on one 6VDC lantern battery. I just picked up a cord and connector from Radio Shack, and used alligator clips to attach the cord to the battery. I could go

Re: [M100] We don't bite (often)

2016-06-24 Thread Howard Pepper
Anita, I took my "Model T" on my last full Mediterranean cruise when I was in the Navy, late August 1986-March 1987. I powered it with one 6VDC lantern battery for the entire time. I mostly wrote small BASIC programs on it, to help pass the time after I got off shift, before bed. The

Re: [M100] New guy here!

2016-06-18 Thread Howard Pepper
Welcome to the group John, you will find tons of Model T experience on this mailing list, and lots of goodies on the Club 100 website. Enjoy! Howard (Florida, USA) On 06/18/2016 02:02 PM, John Lochey wrote: Hi all! Just wanted to chime in and say "hi"! I just found your group, the nice

Re: [M100] Freewrite machine for writing

2016-02-26 Thread Howard Pepper
It looks kind of kludgy to me. I realize this mailing list is dedicated to the Model T's and therefore pretty much any small device similar to them, but I'd rather use my normal laptop/desktop computer, and one of the *many* distraction free editors for writers. A quick Google search for

Re: [M100] Could you use a USB portable flash drive as an alternative device to stores files on a Model 100 ?

2016-03-31 Thread Howard Pepper
And would most definitely score max retro points ;) Howard On 03/31/2016 08:03 AM, Marko Peussa wrote: CCR-81 cassette drive: - portable, extra batteries available from any shop - storage cassettes available from shops and thrift stores - no need for linux or any software skills - user

Re: [M100] steps with CHIP

2016-05-12 Thread Howard Pepper
Willard, I've got a growing collection of Raspberry Pi units (two RPi "B" models, one RPi "B 2" model, one RPi "B 3" model). I'm currently using the two RPi "B" models on my Broadband-Hamnet MESH network, and haven't built the other two yet. Got to say, I love them! They cost a bit more

Re: [M100] steps with CHIP

2016-05-13 Thread Howard Pepper
tps://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw_gYOWg5M0dbXlWQ19tS1N4d0k/view?usp=drivesdk On 12 May 2016 8:48 p.m., "Howard Pepper" <h_pep...@bellsouth.net <mailto:h_pep...@bellsouth.net>> wrote: Willard, I've got a growing collection of Raspberry Pi units

Re: [M100] my Model 100 facebook group

2016-05-05 Thread Howard Pepper
Very cool Bruce, I just requested membership. Howard, AC4FS On 05/05/2016 04:19 PM, William James wrote: Check out my retro portable computer group https://www.facebook.com/groups/858125747631200/ Bruce Hamop Kb8kac

Re: [M100] 40 Column BBS

2016-07-25 Thread Howard Pepper
Nice! Thanks Kurt. On 07/25/2016 04:05 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote: I came across this BBS today and wanted to pass it along. This is one of the few that is 40 columns and you can set the screen height to 8 to match the Model-T screen. Two dial up lines (300bps/2400bps) and telnet access. So if

Re: [M100] A new writing tool

2016-12-17 Thread Howard Pepper
These days I don't think I'd invest too much into hardware "distraction free writing tools". If I wasn't going to use my Model 100/102, I'd probably just use my Linux laptop and one of the many good open source distraction free writing tools that are available. Howard On 12/16/2016 03:43 PM,

Re: [M100] Hello (again) from a newly-minted ham radio operator

2017-01-10 Thread Howard Pepper
Congratulations on passing your Tech and General exams, and welcome back to the community! 73, Howard AC4FS On 01/10/2017 02:02 PM, Mark Wickens wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 at 18:52, Roger Mullins > wrote: > > Hi all- > > I was actually a

Re: [M100] M100 or M200 to Internet via WiFi

2016-12-05 Thread Howard Pepper
Tom, Yes, I use it on my LG G4, when the mood strikes me. I also use AndChat for SSH'ing into my other Linux computers at home. Howard AC4FS On 12/05/2016 03:32 PM, Tom Hoppe wrote: > Has anyone played with "Termux" on Android? It is just a Linux bash > shell, but it has a (maintained)

Re: [M100] Gopher

2017-08-03 Thread Howard Pepper
Neat! It has been well over 20 years since I've used gopher, this brings back loads of memories. On 08/03/2017 10:02 AM, Archturiat Baumann wrote: > I also run a Gopher server myself for a variety of small retro > projects. It currently is the gopher mirror for the Interactive > Fiction archive.

Re: [M100] Tandy Assembly blog...

2017-05-12 Thread Howard Pepper
John, I added your RSS link to my feed list, thanks for this! Howard On 05/12/2017 05:19 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > I hope you will enjoy this link to the first post on the Tandy > Assembly blog... > > http://tandyassembly.blogspot.com/2017/05/exciting-times.html > > Or more generally: > >

Re: [M100] conio.h

2019-11-30 Thread Howard Pepper
You should become a snowbird... there's always room for one or three more in Daytona ;) On 11/30/19 4:12 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: yes! they sure have.  We've had snow on the ground since early November now.  It's mostly melted but we got below zero and mostly stayed there. On Sat, Nov 30,

Re: [M100] Dungeon Master's Personnel Service

2020-01-09 Thread Howard Pepper
Wow! imagine me waking up to this email thread in my inbox today! When I first moved down to Florida (Dec. 1996), I found the paper copy of this Dragon magazine, and was intrigued by the Dungeon Master's Personnel Service program, so I pain stakingly typed it in and debugged my mistakes

[M100] TPPD/TPPD2

2020-01-09 Thread Howard Pepper
Does anybody know of a way to read TPPD/TPPD2 formatted diskettes on MS-DOS/Windows? Howard

Re: [M100] TPPD/TPPD2

2020-01-09 Thread Howard Pepper
answer Ron.  For the rest of you, thank you for your time. Howard On 1/9/20 1:21 PM, Brian K. White wrote: On 1/9/20 12:44 PM, Howard Pepper wrote: Does anybody know of a way to read TPPD/TPPD2 formatted diskettes on MS-DOS/Windows? Howard The only way to read a tpdd disk, discounting KryoFlux

[M100] Slightly Off Topic

2020-12-31 Thread Howard Pepper
I realize this is slightly off topic, but I wanted to share the book I'm reading over the New Year's weekend: Howard

[M100] Tandy 102 Help

2021-11-11 Thread Howard Pepper
Well, I finally did it.  I forgot to change out the AA batteries back in May, like I was supposed to.  I live in Florida, and it is very humid pretty much all year long, even with the air conditioner running.  Anyway I opened my 102 battery compartment this morning and found two of the four

Re: [M100] Tandy 102 Help

2022-07-20 Thread Howard Pepper
software from 4.8 to 4.9, and reinstall my ROM images. Btw, the backup batter is back on as well. Howard On 11/11/21 08:58, Howard Pepper wrote: Well, I finally did it.  I forgot to change out the AA batteries back in May, like I was supposed to.  I live in Florida, and it is very humid pretty