20 Oct
2002
20 Oct
'02
11:37 p.m.
Does anyone here have the XENIX and/or XENIX Development System disks for a
TRS-80 Model 16/6000? I have a Tandy 6000 that I like a lot, and have been
playing around with for a few months, but the XENIX installation seems
rather spotty. Some command line utilities seem to be missing and the
development tools are missing completely. I suppose the previous user did
that to conserve disk space.
On a related note - If anyone has a TRS-80 Model 12/16/6000 keyboard
suffering from keys that have a lack of bounce, removing the keycap and
stretching the spring out a little works wonders.
--
Owen Robertson
21 Oct
21 Oct
12:02 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
Does anyone here have the XENIX and/or XENIX
Development System disks for a
TRS-80 Model 16/6000? I have a Tandy 6000 that I like a lot, and have been
playing around with for a few months, but the XENIX installation seems
rather spotty. Some command line utilities seem to be missing and the
development tools are missing completely. I suppose the previous user did
that to conserve disk space.
Owen, I have a 5-disk set of XENIX 3.02.00 for the Model 16 in TeleDisk
image form. If you have the capability to make media of these, I will
email copies to you.
- don
On a related note - If anyone has a TRS-80 Model
12/16/6000 keyboard
suffering from keys that have a lack of bounce, removing the keycap and
stretching the spring out a little works wonders.
--
Owen Robertson
7:02 a.m.
Owen,
Mike Haas has a set. I gave them to him. He also has a load of other SW and docs for the
6000.
Joe
At 11:38 PM 10/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
Does anyone here have the XENIX and/or XENIX
Development System disks for a
TRS-80 Model 16/6000? I have a Tandy 6000 that I like a lot, and have been
playing around with for a few months, but the XENIX installation seems
rather spotty. Some command line utilities seem to be missing and the
development tools are missing completely. I suppose the previous user did
that to conserve disk space.
On a related note - If anyone has a TRS-80 Model 12/16/6000 keyboard
suffering from keys that have a lack of bounce, removing the keycap and
stretching the spring out a little works wonders.
--
Owen Robertson
11:26 a.m.
On Sunday, October 20, 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
On a related note - If anyone has a TRS-80 Model
12/16/6000 keyboard
suffering from keys that have a lack of bounce, removing the keycap and
stretching the spring out a little works wonders.
Did you ever figure out how to fix the common TRS-80 "have to press the key
hard for a keystroke to register" problem that we were having a few months
ago with my M4? Other than "press the key very hard"? I'm afraid I'll
break
something! :-)
--
Jeffrey Sharp
10:06 p.m.
on 10/21/02 11:08 AM, Jeffrey Sharp at jss(a)subatomix.com wrote:
On Sunday, October 20, 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
In my experience, the problem will go away as you type on the keyboard. I
had a similar problem with a Commodore PET, and I find that the more I type,
the less noticeable the problem becomes. I've never much trouble with TRS-80
keyboards though.
--
Owen Robertson
On a related note - If anyone has a TRS-80 Model
12/16/6000 keyboard
suffering from keys that have a lack of bounce, removing the keycap and
stretching the spring out a little works wonders.
Did you ever figure out how to fix the common TRS-80 "have to press the key
hard for a keystroke to register" problem that we were having a few months
ago with my M4? Other than "press the key very hard"? I'm afraid I'll
break
something! :-) 
22 Oct
22 Oct
6:41 p.m.
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8:36 p.m.
At 11:56 PM 10/22/02 +0100, you wrote:
There are 2 things you can then do. The first is to
dismantle the
defective switches, clean the metal contacts in the base with
propan-2-ol, and rub a little soft pencil (6B is available, at least in
the UK) onto the conductive rubber part. That will get the switch going
again, but it may well not last long.
There are kits to recoat the rubber with a new conductive surface out there.
also check your M4 Keyboard for bad solder joints on the keyswitches, I've
had that problems with M3 and M4 KB's
23 Oct
23 Oct
6:21 p.m.
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