16 Jul
2006
16 Jul
'06
11:06 p.m.
On Monday 17 July 2006 01:34, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
The machine itself doesn't stir any recollections at all, but then it
really has been a heck of a long time since I've seen any of that stuff.
I'm trying to remember when it was that I acquired that machine and I
haven't nailed it down to a year yet. Those drives with all the red
connectors sure do look familiar, though, what make are they?
It's the same Tandon TM 100-2A that IBM shipped in PCs and PC/XTs.
At least there's nothing (besides the EPROM, which is socketed) that is
terribly complex.
Actually, I might pull the rom, and dump it while I'm at work tomorrow... I'm
tempted to power one of the TS-801's up and just see what comes out
the "terminal" port. (perhaps after checking out the power supply first :)
Pat
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On Monday 17 July 2006 01:15 am, Patrick Finnegan
wrote:
This one has a tape stuck in it (unlabelled), and the roller in the drive has
turned to goo, which I now have to repair, and clean the goo off the tape.
At least I know that it uses DC600A cartridges.
Maybe I'll get lucky, and there'll be something useful (software) on the tape.
On Sunday 16 July 2006 19:47, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
The tape drive in mine was pretty cruddy when I got it, but a good
cleaning seems to have helped that a lot. On Sunday 16 July 2006 07:33 pm, Patrick Finnegan
wrote:
I have a TS-816 in storage. A bit more than a "shared tape drive",
it's got a tape drive that they say handles up to 14MB (dunno why some
other drives can seemingly stuff so much more into the same form factor
tapes) and also a big old 8" HD, belt-driven yet.
Yea, I've got one too. had a crashed hdd, and its tape drive needs some
work (was like that when Don sent it to me). A Z80, and I think 128K of ram, which is probably
what you also have
in that other unit as well. It's been a long time since I've run into
any of that stuff, and while I have the 816 and one of the cables to
connect a "workstation" to it, pretty long at that, I never did get
any 801s or similar. Is the 801 the one where the floppy drives are
vertical and to one side of the display monitor?
Nope. The TS-801 is a desktop machine with a pair of full-height
floppies that look like Apple Disk II units or the FH floppies in an IBM
PC (or PC/XT). I took a couple pictures and put them up here...
http://computer-refuge.org/compcollect/televideo/ts801 (and ts806c)
Note: the -s versions are low res versions of the non -s versions.