9 Jan
2012
9 Jan
'12
4:43 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Win Heagy wrote:
Any TRS 80 gurus that can point me in the right
direction with the
disk/video interface box? I recently picked one up and have it connected
to my model 100. Everything appears to be working, but when I start the
interface box, it requests a system disk. Is this required to use the
interface box, or is there a way to go right to the mode to display 80
columns and skip the boot disk in the interface box? I have the owner's
manual, unfortunately the disk is missing and it appears the disk is
required to get the interface box to do anything? Any pointers where I
might find the software?
That WOULD HAVE BEEN Rick Hansen. (R.I.P.)
But, there should be a few others with copies of it.
If I remember correctly, it's double density, single? sided, 256? bytes
per sector, with a linked list FAT style directory structure near the
middle of the disk like Microsoft Stand-Alone BASIC (similar to, but
not matching, Coco, NEC, Oki, etc.). XenoCopy-PC handled it.
The OTHER disk drives for the Model 100 were 3.5" drives that didn't
resemble anybody else's formats.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com