17 Jan
1998
17 Jan
'98
8:58 p.m.
;-) Hans B Pufal head-scratched, yawned, then typed:
Yesterday I picked up a Tandy M100, complete with the
cutest battery
powered 3.5" disk drive connecting the the RS232 port of the M100,
video/disk expansion box and video screen. included in the package was
MS Multiplan on ROM and several other cassette programs. Also lots of
user documentation.
That's the good news, on the down side, couldn't get the price down
below $100 the (marked price was almost $150!) :-( - it was in a
commercial second-hand store and they have to make a living too.
Anyways, it all seems to operate properly, but I am missing the 5-1/4"
system disk for the video/disk expansion box. Anyone know of how I can
get a copy
Yup. (Oh, you actually wanted me to tell you where??? ;-)
Regarding the disk drive, ae the specs on how to drive
it availabel
anywhere. I would serve very nicely for transferring information between
disparate systems.
On the DVI - it has an 80x24 screen output to either a composite monochrome
monitor or television (well, the tele's in the US only do 40x24 -- which
the DVI can do as well) and one or two 40 track SSDD 5.25" floppy drives
capable of storing 180K of info (each). 18 sectors per track, 256 bytes per
sector, the directory track is track 20. (I have better info than this, but
it's not readily available.)
On your TPDD, there were two models, the TPDD1 and TPDD2. both were SSSD FM
encoded 135tpi, but the TPDD1 was 40 tracks and could store 100K and the
TPDD2 was 80 tracks and could store 200K per disk.
Need boot disks? Ask this guy: Rick Hanson at Club 100 - website is at:
http://www.the-dock.com/club100.html
he has replacement boot disks for the TPDD1/2, and I believe for the DVI as
well. He also has a boatload of software that you can download from the web
and use on your Tandy 100/102/200. Rick's one helluva nice guy, too!
Wanna know how to get the software on your Model 100? Here's how: go to
Andy Diller's site... there's a link on my [lame] computer page:
http://home.northernway.net/~zmerch/geezers.shtml
and download a small program called PDD2 - this allows you to hook up your
TPDD2 to your IBM compatible box, and transfer programs, data & basic
programs to and from your TPDD2. The proggie is DOS based, but it's easy to
use, and there's instructions right on Andy's web site.
Oh, and time for the shameless plug: I run a Model 100 listserver... more
information can be reached here:
http://home.northernway.net/~zmerch/signupform.html
Just use the web form to sign up!
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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