Re: [M100] Droid and the Model T

[Joan Leach]

http://www.planetnz.com/palmheads/tandy.php?pg=android

It's near the bottom...
Thanks Kurt, if I can't figure it out on one of my Linux systems, I'll have a 
reason for a tablet that can work as a phone, since the phone screens are so 
small. Any Android tablets work better for the Tandy 100?
Joan in Reno

  From: Darryl Pruett 
 To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 9:01 PM
 Subject: [M100] Droid and the Model T
   
I read on this list about droid’s ability to storage and transfer files.  Is 
there how to and what I  need to do this?

   

Re: [M100] TDock

[Joan Leach]

I remember reading in Puppy's Barry blog when he was building out his Pi 
systems that he used 5-way expansion to his various RAM cards and 
devices...that should help?
I have a netbook, laptop and xeon server that cannot use standard hard drives 
for various reasons, so I use a read-only boot device and save out to another.
Joan in Reno

  From: John R. Hogerhuis 
 To: m...@bitchin100.com 
 Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 11:37 AM
 Subject: Re: [M100] TDock
   


On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Kevin Becker  wrote:

Running the Pi from a read-only filesystem would prevent shutdown problems.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/ blog/adafruits-read-only/




True, but then you can't use it for storage, right?

If you're just using it as a display and a bridge to cloud storage that would 
be sufficient.

I guess root filesystem were r/o, set noatime, and all logs went to ramdisk 
with strict growth /cleanup limits, but store all modifiable files to a 
separate partition or usb key.

Then you can store files, but at least you stay bootable in the face of any 
corruption.
-- John. 

   

Re: [M100] DVI help

[Joan Leach]

Randy, I'm not sure, but I wonder if an old Central Point Copy2PC Option Board 
could make a copy of that boot disk. Anyone back in the try it?
Joan in Reno

  From: Randall Kindig 
 To: m...@bitchin100.com 
 Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 6:20 PM
 Subject: Re: [M100] DVI help
   
I will check that, Brian.  Thanks for your help.
My other question is around the boot disk.  I was sent 2 boot disks with the 
cable, but now only 1 seems to work.  I’m worried now only having one working 
disk.
How do I back it up?  Is there a way to do that with the DVI?  Can I create one 
in a different disk drive, like the drive in the TRS-80 Model 4P?
thanks
Randy

On Feb 17, 2018, at 9:15 PM, Brian White  wrote:
This sounds consistent with Fugu's idea about old capacitors. It sounds like 
both dvi's are marginal, but one is slightly better than the other, and one of 
your M100's is slightly better than the other, and so with the two best ones 
combined, it just barely works, sometimes.
I would check that voltage as he described and I expanded.
On Feb 17, 2018 8:37 PM, "Randall Kindig"  wrote:

SUCCESS!

Per John’s suggestion (and was thinking the same thing when he suggested it) I 
now have a working system.  I started trying different combinations of 
DVI/M100/cable (of which I have 2 each).

DVI #2, M100 #2, Cable #2, no luck

So I swapped out M100 #2 (32K) for M100 #1 (24K/REX), and it worked!

It’s still a little finicky and doesn’t always work, but has worked multiple 
times now.  I don’t know if there’s anything I can do to “tune” it so it’s more 
consistent, but I”m pumped that I finally got it to work.

I had tried this M100/cable combination with DVI #1, so I’m wondering if 
there’s an issue with that DVI.  There also must be an issue of some sort with 
M100 #1 as the current DVI/cable setup didn’t work with that machine, but does 
with the other.

This sure seems like a finicky setup.  I would love to see a modern DVI 
replacement, perhaps with SD card for disk and video output, that would take up 
far less desk space and be more robust.

Thanks all!  Any other suggestions for troubleshooting why the M100 (#2) 
doesn’t work with this and also why DVI #1 doesn’t work with either M100 would 
be much appreciated.

Randy


> On Feb 17, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Randy Kindig  wrote:
>
> I was just thinking the same thing John.  It’s worth a try.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 17, 2018, at 3:07 PM, John R. Hogerhuis  wrote:
>>
>> Btw it occurs to me that there are 16 permutations possible there. Not so 
>> high that you couldn’t do all 16 and see if you ever get different results 
>> in any of 16 if you haven’t already.
>>
>> — John.






   

Re: [M100] linux

[Joan Leach]

First look in Synaptic, that's where I found and installed it.
Joan in Reno

  From: Peter Vollan 
 To: m...@bitchin100.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:22 PM
 Subject: [M100] linux
   
There was some talk of a repository of Linux info. I realise that it is all on 
the gmane archive, but I think there should be a document on how to install 
Virtual T.




   

Re: [M100] dlplus on linux mint

[Joan Leach]

Just curious, but why not use 25-pin to 9-pin serial instead of USB?
Joan in Reno

  From: Peter Vollan 
 To: m...@bitchin100.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 7:52 PM
 Subject: [M100] dlplus on linux mint
   
On a positive note, thank you to everyone whose advice helped me to
finally get Virtual T working on my Linux Mint laptop.

I think I may have said that I had Desklink working, and was
communicating with my Model 100. Well, I spoke too soon. The best way
I can explain it is that it seemed to be working, but it is actually
working sporadically or not at all. The fact that I have had some
limited success tells me that I am very close, having solved obvious
problems like permissions on the USB port. The fly in the ointment now
is the USB to serial adaptor.

I have had three so far, a radio shack model, a Prolific one, and my
current one, an FTDI model with null modem built in. Here are the
relevant lines from /etc/modlules:

#usbserial vendor=0x1453 product=0x4026
#usbserial vendor=0x067b product=0x2303
usbserial vendor=0x0403 product=0x6001

I realise that this is more of Linux problem than a model T question,
but it would be just great if I could actually succeed at this
particular project. I have 3 different USB to serial cables available
(actually I have three Prolific ones that are supposedly the same
under the hood).