I could have sworn there was a newer black colored m100 type system that someone was selling a bunch of on ebay. Iirc they were calling it the tandy killer and i thougbt it was a "slate".
I did forget about the m100 pc expansion though (price is always higher than desirable). But best of both worlds. Super portable m100 and plug it in at desk ams have a monitor, memory expansion and dual disk drive. Always wanted to find one for the right price.
The poqet is also a great mention for compatability in a palmtop.? I think the bad part is all these great choices also have higher prices for their usability.? You sort of "need" the expansions on the poqet.??
Back to the hp 200lx standard (small plug) but sorta easy to make a serial cable and use as a termial also.
That's why we only find the lesser units and these all hover over 100.:-(
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In days of old would use one with a 50 ft ribbon cable as a
'portable' console fro one of my hp 2000 systems I would just rag it around to
wherever I was in the Computer Room.
or into the front office west of the computer room as the back of the
2000 was against that wall. In those days seemed so amazing to do so!
Ed#
In a message dated 11/3/2017 10:57:23 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
Hey, TRS-80 M100 rocks! I've got several, and they all work perfectly to
this day. Built by Kyocera, who isn't known for making junk..
The 30+ hr. battery life alone is enough to earn them a high rating, and
they have a built-in terminal program. I've used them to control headless
Linux boxes several times via serial port. I believe they do 9600 or
possibly 19200.
no.... the other hp museum!
across the pond!
http://hpmuseum.net/
good people!
it may already be online they have done a good job scanning stuff.
ed#
In a message dated 11/3/2017 12:30:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
> > Well they say they would like to scan but no resource. Available to
> > view on three days notice
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Ed via cctalk wrote:
> what about the kind folks at the hp museum?
. . . and' don't they have some sort of archive in Santa Rosa?
what about the kind folks at the hp museum?
Ed#
In a message dated 11/3/2017 10:38:04 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
Well they say they would like to scan but no resource. Available to view
on
three days notice
Dave
On 3 Nov 2017 10:41, "Dave Wade" <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marc,
> They seem to have a big collection of Manuals but no intention of
scanning
> them, or making them available other than on personal request. I am in
the
> UK but have never been. Let me e-mail and ask.
> Dave
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
> > CuriousMarc via cctalk
> > Sent: 03 November 2017 07:10
> > To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> > Subject: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK
> >
> > The link below is from the computer museum in Cambridge, UK, which
> > seems to have a copy of an HP 2640 terminal manual I am looking for. Is
> > anyone from that museum on the list? Does any of the UK members know
> > them?
> > http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/14373/HP-2640-Series-Character-
> > Set-Ge
> > neration/
> >
> > Does anyone on the list have a copy of this manual?
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
>
>
>
Hey folks;
The Personal Computer Museum (http://www.pcmuseum.ca) is
offering a beautiful 2018 vintage computer calendar as a fundraiser. The
calendars are in hand and the cost is $20 Canadian (no tax).
The
shipping rates (in CAD) are $3.50 within Canada, $5.00 to the U.S. and
$10.50 to the rest of the world.
We accept Paypal via our website at
http://www.pcmuseum.ca/shop.asp
If you don't like Paypal, e-mail me
directly for other options!
The order page includes a sample of what it
looks like.
The computers included this year are:
IBM PC (1981), Kaypro
II (1982), Pencil II (1984), Exidy Sorcerer (1978), Commodore PET 4032
(1980), Apple ][+ (1979), Apple PowerBook 150 (1994),
Commodore 64
(1982), NeXTcube (1980), Superbrain QD (1979), Atari 800 (1979), Unisys
ICON (1986)
If you are interested please reply here or to
info at pcmuseum.ca .... The quantities are limited.
Thanks for your
support!
I was not able to get access to any of my notes to more completely answer
Eric's question.
Short answer: NO. Otrona did not have two different obscure numbers of
tracks for their disk sides. On the limited number of Otronas that I
encountered. What I encountered was very straight-forward WD-like
ordinarty disk formats. IIRC, they were 10 sectors per track, with 512
bytes per sector.
There were 40 cylinder and 80 cylinder.
There was a CP/M, and an MS-DOS.
I don't remember what the distribution of those formats was, although I
specifically remember a 96tpi (800k) MS-DOS.
Ironically, the first one that I saw was a doctor at a hospital.
To flog the point about portability, Otrona did an early ad with a Chaplin
imitator trying to carry a card table with a PC on it down steps in front
of a building (capitol?) IBM claimed to own Chaplin (and did apparently
pay royalties to Chaplin estate), although Chaplin himself was not a big
fan of biug corporation.
I wasn't able to answer more fully, nor even now. I just spent a week in
the hospital. giant kidney stone and massive infection. First few days
were intolerable levels of pain. I am now on 2 weeks of 24/7 IV
antibiotic infusions. Bizarre little pump that I carry around, but, at
least I'm carrying it around at home, instead of the hospital.
THEN, in 2 weeks? they will operate to try to remove the stone. They are
hoping to do it with trans-urethral laser, with lithotripsy as a fall
back.
I had not prepared for being in the hospital, so only had a phone (Samsung
Galaxy S4), and it wasn't until the third day that I was able to wrangel
access to my pants (and pocket contents)
I think that I will recover.
THANK YOU to the folk who wrote to me with good wishes!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
>From the Otrona Attache Technical Manual, July 1983:
"The diskettes Attache uses have fourty-six tracks on the top side and
fifty tracks on the bottom side, [...]"
Really???
> From: Rob Jarratt
> when I replaced it and powered on there was a big bang
What went 'bang'? (I assume if there was a loud noise, it mus have left
visible damage somewhere.)
Noel
> From: Aaron Jackson
> Picked up a few 555s and sockets and now it works!
Congratulations!
It's odd that a 555 failed, but sometimes there's no rhyme or reason to what
fails. E.g. I was fixing some broken M7859's (KY11-LB Programmer's Console),
and on one of them a 7493 (4-bit counter) had died. That's not one of the
'problem' 74xx chips, like ISTR the 7474 being?
Noel
